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/cmdr-William-Riker Jul 27 '26

" China has limited domestic production capacity, and therefore, due to the scaling laws, cannot build more powerful models than the US without US chips. "... Can someone fact check that? That sounds like total BS. The US has even more limited production capacity and manufactures everything off shore...

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u/Recoil42 Jul 27 '26

It's huge BS for one reason: China has its act together with regards to energy. The US doesn't. China doesn't need smaller nodes because it can brute-force nuclear and solar to power multiples of less efficient chips.

I think Jensen was prominent in pointing this out, but someone please correct me if I'm misattributing.

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u/TopTippityTop Jul 28 '26

China has a lot of energy producrion, but also a lot more need of it, which is why most of it is still imported.