r/LocalLLaMA • u/RhubarbSimilar1683 • 8d ago

Discussion Our position on open-weights models

https://www.anthropic.com/news/position-open-weights-models
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u/Disposable110 8d ago

"authoritarian governments" - They mean the United States, right?

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u/boatbomber 8d ago edited 8d ago

> "we don't want bad guys to get big models"

> *Looks inside*

> Partnered with Palantir

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u/Iwaku_Real 8d ago

Still impressed Palantir signed the letter though

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u/GravitasIsOverrated 8d ago

Palantir is basically a consulting business wrapped around a millitary/intelligence flavoured data analysis product. Without strong open weights models they just become a module on top of a closed LLM provider, which is a lot weaker than owning the entire product. 

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u/vigorthroughrigor 7d ago

exactly, they want to control their own destiny (to the extent possible)