New Delhi, July 28 -- Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei has said that the company does not want open-weight models to be banned. Notably, the Claude maker has been at the receiving end of criticism from Silicon Valley after it refused to sign an industry-wide open letter defending open-weight models. Anthropic has also been accused of trying to exert control over the future of AI while disguising its profit-driven intentions under the banner of AI safety.

Amodei, however, clarified Anthropic's position in a blog post on Monday.

"To summarize my and Anthropic's position, we have not and are not advocating for a ban on open-weight models as a category," Amodei wrote in a blog post. "We should instead focus on keeping powerful chips out of author...