India, July 28 -- Days after a number of artificial intelligence (AI) companies came together in support for open-weight models, Anthropic has weighed in on why they didn't join the group of signatories that includes Google, Microsoft, Meta, Nvidia, Perplexity, SpaceX and later OpenAI as well. Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei clarified that "Anthropic has never advocated for a ban on open-weight models", and called out accusations that the AI company wanted to protect its business of proprietary AI models. He suggested a three point template, which on many issues, walks a different path.

"Open-weight models that don't have dangerous capabilities are a public good: they don't cost anything besides the compute needed to run them, and they provid...