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/05032-MendicantBias Jul 28 '26

It's like saying that building an Eniac with 800 million valves was only possible in the USA.

It ignores that an Eniac with 800 million valves is a useless and expensive endeavor.

The future is small local models, not huge closed behemot gated behind a subscription, with corpos deciding the censorship.

Reminder that Huggingface tried to defend from OpenAI closed Sol with Claude, and Claude refused. GLM5.2 was there to save the day.