They just want US authorities to ban big corporations from using models like GLM etc. so that they can keep selling their overpriced tokens. Funnily enough, a ban like this would close to impossible to enforce on individuals, so I guess their lobbying efforts will soon be met by lobbying efforts from big corporations that are losing from this.
Completely stopping people from using open source models is impossible, but if it became a federal law there could be incredible pressure exerted on US companies. For example, OpenRouter might be compelled to not accept open source requests on threat of fines.
The interesting thing here is that Amodei is implicitly admitting he foresees open-weight models (and not "open-source", please...) reaching Mythos-equivalent capability before much longer.
Which, I mean, d'uh; if you've been paying attention it's not a wild forecast.
Paraphrasing him, he says that open source software which tool tens or hundreds of millions to build should be classified as a different category. And the implication being they should be banned. Why?
Dangerous for them. Great for everyone else who want alternatives.
That means open weight models are good enough to threaten Anthropic's bottom line so much that Dario needs to get governments to ban the release of open weight models.
Which, I mean, d'uh; if you've been paying attention it's not a wild forecast.
But it's interesting that he's admitting it.
That means open weight models are good enough to threaten Anthropic's bottom line so much that Dario needs to get governments to ban the release of open weight models.
Glad someone was watching and clipped it.