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Anthropic insists it's not pushing open weight AI ban, but...

Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei said the AI lab does not support a ban on open-weight AI models but expressed concern about their abuse, which is why Anthropic is not joining NVIDIA's Open Secure AI Alliance. In a letter shared Monday, Amodei stated that open models should undergo the same mandatory testing as closed models.

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Anthropic insists it's not pushing open weight AI ban, but...
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Anthropic does not support a ban on open-weight AI models. But CEO Dario Amodei said his concern about abuse of open-weight models is why the AI lab is not joining NVIDIA’s Open Secure AI Alliance.

In a letter shared Monday, Amodei said Anthropic had never advocated for a ban, such as the one

, but said open models should go through the same mandatory testing as closed models.

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