Anthropic’s open-weight stance doesn’t matter if it keeps shipping models like Opus 5
doodlestein · x · 2026-07-26
- The author says they do not care whether Anthropic supports open-weight models, as long as it keeps shipping strong models like Opus 5.
- Their argument is that good proprietary models still help open-source efforts indirectly by raising the baseline.
- They also add a broader point: open models are probably not stoppable anyway.
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