The original authors of all the text, creators of the media and developers of the software did far more work than Anthropic.

Anthropic’s anger here seems mostly rooted in their annoyance that this exposes they don’t really have core IP that’s not just easily replicated. And that’s clearly a problem for a deeply unprofitable company trying to convince people they’re worth $2 trillion.

Oh that’s very sad.

Meanwhile Anthropic made a product from the work effort of millions of people without compensating them, sell that product on tap and unless I am mistaken do not even have their competitors’ cover of having released any sort of meaningful open weights model.

They have taken from culture (including very specifically their most direct customers’ specific culture — our culture), turned it into a machine to make themselves rich, appear likely to predicate their valuation on permanently removing people from the workforce, then want to dump themselves onto pensions funds and ordinary savers to carry the bag.

It is, I agree, philosophical, because karma is a philosophy as well as a bitch.

That doesn't mean they won't try, and that also doesn't mean they won't succeed.

I wish people here could at least bother to inform themselves about the IP rights they are so quick to insist are abhorrent, when they seem to not even have a first clue as to what they actually cover.

You could say Anthropic distilled human knowledge and art.

The whole point of AI is to get rid of you so rich people can play with the planet like it's minecraft. Software engineers just think they're special because they're the ones building it like they'll get a pat on the head for being good little servants to the investor class. Or worse, that their portfolios will let them be the gods who rule over ashes.

The amount of progress that came out of academia and other public sources should not be underestimated either and without all that OpenAI and Anthropic wouldn't even exist.

(Similar to how U.S. labs have NSA leadership)

> If China ever gets ahead, they're going closed source and weights immediately.

Anthropic itself admits that Chinese models are merely months behind. Your argument does not make sense, because Chinese labs are contributing massive optimizations like the one this post is about.

Please quote people you appear to be patronizing. China can't do anything about previous released self-hosted Chinese models. If you can show that local Chinese models funnel vast amounts us data home I'm sure you can move a lot of people to your side.

Comments like this also always fail to address why there aren't Western AI companies doing the same thing. Is it because they might get sued into oblivion by Big AI in the US?

It might be better for all of us if you solve that first instead of repeating something the government has been repeating for the last decade or more. It does this, mind you, while sabotaging itself in countless high-tech fields and leaving it all to China for the taking.

That's giving a lot of credit to Google's organizational ability to productize Google's research...

Local inference will have a boom of cheap, powerful, and available cards at some point (even if it isn’t until 2028/2029). At some point the hyperscalers, and frontier labs, will face the capex problems that everyone talks about, and NVidia, AMD, Apple, and Intel will want to keep selling products.

Powerful, by today’s standard, local inference needs to be accessible to really unlock the “AI” economy long term. It’s just like how the move from mainframes to the PC 40ish years ago unlocked the “computer revolution.”