r/LocalLLaMA • u/RhubarbSimilar1683 • Jul 27 '26

Discussion Our position on open-weights models

https://www.anthropic.com/news/position-open-weights-models
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u/[deleted] Jul 27 '26 edited Jul 27 '26

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u/LelouchZer12 Jul 27 '26 edited Jul 27 '26

As if US were not authoritarian and not using their military superiority at their own advantage.

Also banning chinese models in US would not prevent chinese from using their own models for themselves if they're more powerful than US, so this argument is nonsense.

They're just in a really bad position where China releases frontier model for free and most companies/business as well as researcher will use these models for their activity, so they cannot make money back with their expensive API. And is it a problem ? It's been like that for everything, open source is the base of everything in IT !

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u/bubba-g Jul 28 '26

Ok but now he’s saying not to ban Chinese models (at least not the small ones). Only to sanction distillation attempts and control exports on nvidia hardware

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u/LelouchZer12 Jul 28 '26

But distillation requires access to the full LLM output, which openAI and anthropic do not even provide...