Anthropic Supports Open Weights, but Opposes Distillation

💼 Anthropic Supports Open Weights, but Opposes Distillation

Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei has published the company's position regarding open-weights models. Anthropic does not advocate for a total ban on them, considering them a public good in the absence of dangerous capabilities. Instead of restricting the format, the company proposes focusing on chip export controls and combating the industrial distillation of powerful models.

🌍 A shift in focus from fighting distribution formats (open vs closed) to fighting methods used to bypass restrictions and controlling access to computational power.

👤 Anthropic does not plan to "close off" the industry through bans, but will actively oppose methods that allow for the rapid copying of frontier model capabilities through distillation.

Source 1: https://www.anthropic.com/news/position-open-weights-models