New Delhi, July 29 -- Mark Zuckerberg took aim at Anthropic and OpenAI in an interview with New York Times on Tuesday. The CEO of Meta did not call out Anthropic and OpenAI by name, but said that if leading research labs wanted to develop AI technology in a tightly controlled manner, it would be akin to "abandoning our values" in American tech development and stifling innovation.

The comments from Zuckerberg escalate a debate over how AI software should be created that has divided Silicon Valley.

"So much of the discourse from a lot of the other labs that are developing this is overwhelmingly filled with doom," Zuckerberg said in the interview. "There needs to be a voice or several voices that are bringing realism to this debate."

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