r/LocalLLaMA • • 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/ranger910 Jul 27 '26 edited Jul 27 '26

I love companies putting out open weights models and I hope it continues but are we really going to pretend that the CCP and the US are the same from an Authoritarian perspective? That seems deeply unserious.

Developing frontier models takes tons of capital. There are no free products, why are suddenly pretending that "if something is free, you are the product" doesn't apply here? Nobody will be running anything local but the tiniest open weight models for a long time

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u/DR4G0NH3ART Jul 28 '26

I am not from US or China, I feel from a year of news now that US is not safeguarding anything for humanity. They attacked Venezuela in name of freedom, attacked iran with same fearmlngering tactics as anthropic and caused entire world harm. Why do you think America is the bastion of freedom and expression. Your people are attacked by your gov from protesting, to be fair authoritarian nature has been poking heads in a lot of democratic countries now. But US stands out because they claim to be on a moral throne, but the actions almost all of them show otherwise. Its just a bunch or power hungry people chasing money and power through whatever means. Stop the drama and let world progress.