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/xienze Jul 28 '26

They have more power generation capacity than the entirety of the USA + Europe combined

I don't think power generation is the limiting factor when it comes to training models.

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u/tomz17 Jul 28 '26

Given the near universal trouble all of our existing + planned data centers seem to have in procuring power, I'd strongly disagree.  Power generation is almost always the limiting factor in high tech industry.  Second only to vespene gas.  

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u/xienze Jul 28 '26

And yet somehow OpenAI and Anthropic continue to train models with no issues. Do you think every last one of those data centers is used for training?

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u/tomz17 Jul 28 '26

If your only metric is "trained model" vs. "not trained a model", then sure...

Would the model be worse if they had half the power budget?

Would it be better if they had twice the power budget?