Anthropic stayed off the open-weights letter Jensen Huang published on 24 July 2026, now signed by 50 companies including Nvidia, Meta, Microsoft, OpenAI and Google. Anthropic says it supports open-weight models and has always opposed a ban. The clause it objects to asks Washington to stop treating model distillation as misappropriation.

Google, OpenAI, and xAI back an open letter urging US policymakers not to restrict open-weight AI models, joining 25 signatories including Nvidia

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…

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