🚨BREAKING: Anthropic CEO Dario responds to Nvidia CEO Jensen’s open weights letter

“Anthropic has never advocated for a ban on open-weights models.”

What Anthropic DOES support:
>don’t sell powerful chips to China, crack down on smuggling
>crack down on industrial-scale distillation
>mandatory safety testing for all capable models, open AND closed

On Jensen’s letter:

Agrees:
>open weights expand access
>strengthen competition
>give customers control

Disagrees:
>that open weights necessarily help defenders more than attackers
>specifically worried about biology >“sufficiently capable models may be able to quickly weaponize pandemic-level viruses”

On distillation:
>“A blanket ban on open-weights models is neither the correct remedy nor something we have called for.”

The real target: "companies backed by an authoritarian state seeking to overtake the US at the frontier."