Anthropic CEO and co-founder Dario Amodei. Image: Anthropic
The Anthropic CEO has hit back at claims his company wants Chinese open-weight models banned, days after sitting out a rival industry letter.
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei has moved to quash what he called a specific accusation circulating in AI circles this week, that his company wants Chinese open-weight models banned in the US as a way of protecting its own business.
In a post titled ‘Our position on open-weights models’ on the Anthropic website yesterday (27 July), Amodei wrote that “Anthropic has never advocated for a ban on open-weights models”, and said open-weight models without dangerous capabilities are a public good that cost nothing beyond the compute needed to run them.
The post follows an open letter published on 24 July and hosted on Nvidia’s website, titled ‘Open Weights and American AI Leadership‘, which urged US policymakers not to impose broad restrictions on open-weight models. The letter was signed by virtually all the big tech players including Nvidia, Microsoft, Meta and Hugging Face, and later grew to include OpenAI and Google – signatories stand at 50 today. Anthropic did not sign.
