Posted Jul 28, 2026 at 12:25 AM UTCHExternal LinkDario Amodei weighed in on Anthropic’s open-weight model controversy.The company had been igniting widespread criticism as seemingly the only leading AI lab not supporting open-weight models. Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang recently published a public letter in support of them, signed by Microsoft, Nvidia, Meta, Palantir, Hugging Face, and others — and in the days since, it’s added OpenAI, Google, Amazon, Meta, SpaceX, Cohere, Mistral, CoreWeave, GitHub, OpenClaw, and Perplexity as signatories. Now Anthropic’s CEO has published his own thoughts on the matter, clarifying, “Anthropic has never advocated for a ban on open-weights models.”Follow topics and authors from this story to see more like this in your personalized homepage feed and to receive email updates.Hayden FieldLoading commentsGetting the conversation ready...The Verge DailyA free daily digest of the news that matters most.Email (required)
Dario Amodei weighed in on Anthropic’s open-weight model controversy.
The company had been igniting widespread criticism as seemingly the only leading AI lab not supporting open-weight models. Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang recently published a public letter in support of them, signed by Microsoft, Nvidia, Meta, Palantir, Hugging Face, and others — and in the days since, it’s added OpenAI, Google, Amazon, Meta, SpaceX, Cohere, Mistral, CoreWeave, GitHub, OpenClaw, and Perplexity as signatories. Now Anthropic’s CEO has published his own thoughts on the matter, clarifying, “Anthropic has never advocated for a ban on open-weights models.” [Link: Our position on open-weights models | https://www.anthropic.com/news/position-open-weights-models | Anthropic]
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei clarified the company never opposed open-weight models, after criticism for standing apart from industry support. Model distribution strategy signals market direction—shaping enterprise architecture choices, stack decisions, and vendor evaluation for IT leaders.
