Anthropic Faces Backlash Over Its Dependence on Google’s Open Transformer Papers
mattwbaker · x · 2026-07-28
Anthropic investor Bill Gurley echoed a critique that Anthropic should not ignore how much it owes to Google’s open-sourced Transformer papers.
The post argues that Google could have patented the work and pursued monopoly control, and that Anthropic’s anti-open-source posture is ironic given its own dependence on open research.
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