Nat Lambert welcomes more labs competing with Anthropic on open AI research tools
natolambert · x · 2026-11-10
AI researcher Nathan Lambert says he's excited to see more labs compete with Anthropic in distributing AI research abilities: the safety community and others can build immense value on such tools, and the labs themselves can improve their own AI R&D by learning from user data — a take on Anthropic's strategy of opening up research-oriented capabilities.
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