alt Hacker NewsAt this point, Anthropic releasing a sonnet 4.x class open weights model would be a positive PR move that doesn’t affect their bottom line.
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tesnorindian • today at 5:22 AM
+1 and this will really be a good move. Open weights models are not going anywhere the focus should now shift to hardware and compute. Compute needs to be optimized for LLMs, currently they are inefficient. Analog computing like ReRAM should get more focus.
dgellow • today at 7:54 AM
That would go against the narrative they built over the years, that open weight models are dangerous because they will end up telling you how to create a biological weapon that will destroy the world
They will never do this because it will reveal way more about their other model architectures than they would ever be willing to do. I mean really why the hell are we mad at a company for not wanting to open source their IP? do you think Meta is going to release their ad targeting algorithms? Or google is going to release their search rank algorithms. i mean these things are multi trillion dollar pieces of IP.
I get Anthropic is being really sleazy and annoying here, but being mad at them for not releasing an open weight model i think is unreasonable.