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Dario on why large open weights models are a farce

September 23, 2025 View original thread

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@techeconomyana
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Anthropic CEO Dario on open-source models:
- Open-sourcing the weights of large models is different from open-source software; there is no reverse contribution from the developer community.
- Open-sourcing is just a smokescreen to attract attention; users only care whether this model is practical and effective. Whether Deepseek is open-sourced or not doesn't matter; as a super-large model, it's very difficult to run inference on.
- Open-sourcing does not equal free; running inference servers comes with costs.

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imo i hate what he’s saying but he also has a point. The only individual i’ve heard run R1 locally has a GB100 rack in his basement. That’s not exactly open source..

also the durable part of the contribution is the data or at least data pipelines, and those are basically never released

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but still, Dario seems to know just the right way to look like a comic book villain

on the other extreme, Sam Altman has a way of making truly terrible things sound amazing

Haider. & P
@slow_developer
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Sam Altman says the industry is bottlenecked by compute, and OpenAl can't meet demand
Over the next 1-2 years, scarcity could force painful tradeoffs,
"cure cancer research vs free global education"
No one wants to make that choice. The only answer: scale up

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