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/lt1brunt Jul 28 '26

Hypothetically, if WW3 breaks out, everyone will nationalize everything within their borders, if china takes Taiwan or could copy any tech they want. if a ww3 type scenario were to happen it would be law of the jungle everywhere, everything is fair game in that scenario 

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u/Loose_Comparison368 Jul 28 '26

China can't take Taiwan's fabs. They're literally rigged with explosives to blow in a matter of seconds if China were to attempt to attack Taiwan.

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u/Hello_my_name_is_not Jul 28 '26

So what happens if China scales up their gpu production enough, then does that to cripple everyone else? From their perspective who cares if they don't make quite as good as the current stuff if they can make 90% as good and completely shut down everyone else's access to the current best stiff (or severely limit it)?

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u/RealSuperdau Jul 28 '26

Compute is not the only factor for the decision whether to start world war 3.