Amodei published Anthropic's formal position on open weights. He opposes bans but wants chip export controls, distillation crackdowns, and mandatory safety testing.

The Trump administration is planning targeted bans on Chinese AI models rather than a blanket ban. After public pressure, OpenAI and Google DeepMind signed an open letter opposing…

Anthropic is the only major AI lab that hasn't signed the open-weights letter. In June it argued the same case, when Washington pulled Fable 5.

Dario Amodei of Anthropic opposes a ban on open models, advocating instead for mandatory safety testing amid rising AI competition.