Palantir CEO Alex Karp said the US must be “very careful” not to follow Europe’s example

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In the Friday letter, the signatories said that concerns about unlawful distillation should be addressed through "targeted legal and commercial frameworks," an idea that Amodei agreed with on Monday.

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Palantir, Nvidia, and several other major tech companies signed a letter urging the Trump administration not to ban “open-weight” AI models. Amodei published his views in a blog post on Monday, after a coalition of tech companies, including Nvidia, Microsoft, Meta and Palantir, released a letter late last week urging policymakers to avoid "premature restrictions" on open-weight models, which users can download, modify and run on their own infrastructure.

Anthropic is best known for developing a family of proprietary models called Claude that it sells to businesses. Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs last month alleging that China's Alibaba, developer of the Qwen family of models, had carried out the "the largest known distillation attack" against it to date.

"Protectionist bans would not address my most serious national security concerns," Amodei said.

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Chief rival OpenAI also primarily builds closed models, but the company signed on in support of the open-weight letter after it was published, while Anthropic did not. "To summarize my and Anthropic's position, we have not and are not advocating for a ban on open-weights models as a category," Amodei wrote. Amodei said he also agrees with other portions of the letter, namely that open-weight models give customers greater control, expand access to the AI economy and strengthen competition in some use cases.