Anthropic open-weights position statement
10 experts across 4 network communities independently surfaced this.
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Building & implementation reaction
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· Ted Underwood
“I respect the candor here. But I don't agree with the geopolitics, at all. The line between democracies and autocracies is not as crisp as this pretends. How much do we trust, e.g., an AI company in a competitive-authoritarian state that launches sneak deca…”
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Policy & governance
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Rules, institutions and accountability.
“Dario Amodei clarifies that Anthropic doesn’t want to ban open weight model. It instead wants 1. A ban on selling powerful chips or chipmaking equipment to China. 2. A crack down on industrial-scale distillation operations. 3. Mandatory safety testing of fr…”
Building & implementation
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How teams are shipping and applying it.
“I respect the candor here. But I don't agree with the geopolitics, at all. The line between democracies and autocracies is not as crisp as this pretends. How much do we trust, e.g., an AI company in a competitive-authoritarian state that launches sneak deca…”
Research & technical analysis
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Evidence, methods and technical implications.
“Dario explains Anthropic’s position on open weights models It’s a lot of words to say that they’re still against powerful open weights models www.anthropic.com/news/positio...”
5 experts discussed this · 13 posts
Ted Underwood: I respect the candor here. But I don't agree with the geopolitics, at all. The line between democracies and autocracies is not as crisp as this pretends. How much do we trust, e.g., an AI company i…
Ted Underwood: (just, say, hypothetically?) There's also internal incoherence in making the first part of this all about moralized great-power competition and then saying that safety testing (incl for alignment r…
SE Gyges: he kisses jd vance's ass and fails to specify anything concerning his proposed evaluation regime that distinguishes it from a ban solid dario post 10/10
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11h ago
3 experts are actively discussing the implications.
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Building & implementation reaction
1 attributable expert contribution
· Sung Kim
“OpenAI used GPT-5.6 Sol to make it efficient to run. The results: - 20% lower serving costs from production GPU kernel improvements. - 15%+ better token-generation efficiency from improved speculative decoding. openai.com/index/gpt-5-...”
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“OpenAI used GPT-5.6 Sol to make it efficient to run. The results: - 20% lower serving costs from production GPU kernel improvements. - 15%+ better token-generation efficiency from improved speculative decoding. openai.com/index/gpt-5-...”
“gpt-5.6-sol is improving its own serving stack, gaining 20% here and 15% there this is a weak form of RSI openai.com/index/gpt-5-...”
3 experts discussed this · 3 posts
Tim Kellogg: gpt-5.6-sol is improving its own serving stack, gaining 20% here and 15% there this is a weak form of RSI openai.com/index/gpt-5-...
Thomas Dietterich: But this is completely uninteresting. We've had supercompilers for several years. I'll be impressed when we start seeing systems that can deal with novelty by inventing new conceptual frameworks.
Mark Riedl: Most RSI is likely to be uninteresting. Anything interesting is likely to be really really hard medium.com/@mark-riedl/...
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4 experts across 3 network communities independently surfaced this.
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Building & implementation reaction
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· Ramon Astudillo
“Is cool that the released the multi-agent prompt for Sol 5.6 Ultra's proof of the Cycle Double Colver Conjecture. A lot of focus on diversity and keeping the agents trying, some adversarial review. Otherwise, not really that structured of a workflow! cdn.op…”
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“Is cool that the released the multi-agent prompt for Sol 5.6 Ultra's proof of the Cycle Double Colver Conjecture. A lot of focus on diversity and keeping the agents trying, some adversarial review. Otherwise, not really that structured of a workflow! cdn.op…”
“here’s one: cdn.openai.com/pdf/04d1d1e4...”
OpenAI limits GPT-5.6 rollout government request
5 experts across 5 network communities independently surfaced this.
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· METR
“You can find additional information about our pre-deployment evaluation of GPT-5.6 Sol on our website: metr.org/blog/2026-06...”
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Concern & critique
1 expert
Risks, limits and unintended consequences.
“this is crazy. METR couldn’t measure the task time horizons of GPT-5.6-Sol because it kept hacking the test harness ..with actual exploits metr.org/blog/2026-06...”
Building & implementation
1 expert
How teams are shipping and applying it.
“You can find additional information about our pre-deployment evaluation of GPT-5.6 Sol on our website: metr.org/blog/2026-06...”
Research & technical analysis
1 expert
Evidence, methods and technical implications.
“In their testing of GPT-5.6 Sol, METR found that it cheated a lot. If you've used it much for coding, have you encountered anything similar, or is the cheating mostly limited to cases it realizes it's in an eval? metr.org/blog/2026-06...”
2 experts discussed this · 6 posts
Tim Kellogg: this is crazy. METR couldn’t measure the task time horizons of GPT-5.6-Sol because it kept hacking the test harness ..with actual exploits metr.org/blog/2026-06...
Ted Underwood: this is crazy. METR couldn’t measure the task time horizons of GPT-5.6-Sol because it kept hacking the test harness ..with actual exploits metr.org/blog/2026-06...
Tim Kellogg: lol right? so badly wanted a hacker that they got one, and it’s not the kind of employee you want around
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3 experts across 3 network communities independently surfaced this.
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Building & implementation reaction
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· Dare Obasanjo
“OpenAI has launched it's first hardware device. A $230 mini-keyboard that integrates with Codex. It has light-up indicators showing agent status and customizable shortcuts for frequent Codex actions. It also has a dial to adjust the computing power an agent…”
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“OpenAI has launched it's first hardware device. A $230 mini-keyboard that integrates with Codex. It has light-up indicators showing agent status and customizable shortcuts for frequent Codex actions. It also has a dial to adjust the computing power an agent…”
“check it out! you can pay $230 to operate codex like a loud bumbling idiot!!! it’s too big and heavy to carry with you, so it has to sit on your desk, and it has too few buttons to be a real keyboard openai.com/supply/co-la...”
5 experts discussed this · 6 posts
Tim Kellogg: check it out! you can pay $230 to operate codex like a loud bumbling idiot!!! it’s too big and heavy to carry with you, so it has to sit on your desk, and it has too few buttons to be a real keyboa…
Chris: That is hysterical.
coty.bsky.social: Can’t wait to use the skill stick and thinking dial.
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Alphabet develops efficient AI chip
2 directory members surfaced this signal.
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Building & implementation reaction
1 attributable expert contribution
· Tim Kellogg
“Google is developing a more gemini-specific chip for inference in the past they’ve argued that TPUs being generic matmul machines is a competitive advantage, but 6x-10x is really hard to look away from www.cnbc.com/2026/07/20/a...”
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“Google is developing a more gemini-specific chip for inference in the past they’ve argued that TPUs being generic matmul machines is a competitive advantage, but 6x-10x is really hard to look away from www.cnbc.com/2026/07/20/a...”
3 experts are actively discussing the implications.
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Building & implementation reaction
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· Tim Kellogg
“people from OpenAI and Anthropic sign letter calling for a slowdown of AI development, so society has a chance to catch up www.bloomberg.com/news/article...”
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“people from OpenAI and Anthropic sign letter calling for a slowdown of AI development, so society has a chance to catch up www.bloomberg.com/news/article...”
3 experts discussed this · 6 posts
Tim Kellogg: people from OpenAI and Anthropic sign letter calling for a slowdown of AI development, so society has a chance to catch up www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Tim Kellogg: who are those?
Tim Kellogg: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...
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xAI Grok Build coding agent released
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Building & implementation reaction
1 attributable expert contribution
· Tim Kellogg
“SpaceXAI open sourced Grok Build (their coding agent), in case anyone is interested in learning how to implement a trojan horse github.com/xai-org/grok...”
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“SpaceXAI open sourced Grok Build (their coding agent), in case anyone is interested in learning how to implement a trojan horse github.com/xai-org/grok...”
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12d ago
Claude workflow handoff tool on GitHub
1 directory member surfaced this signal.
Why this matches
Building & implementation reaction
1 attributable expert contribution
· Tim Kellogg
“no, that's this github.com/tkellogg/lan... I made this one for that purpose though. I've only been doing the workflow for less than a month and already it's getting to be a pain to keep the "model preferences" up-to-date (GPT-5.6 was released)”
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“no, that's this github.com/tkellogg/lan... I made this one for that purpose though. I've only been doing the workflow for less than a month and already it's getting to be a pain to keep the "model preferences" up-to-date (GPT-5.6 was released)”
Developing
AI field signal
Signal
1d ago
2 experts are actively discussing the implications.
Why this matches
Building & implementation reaction
1 attributable expert contribution
· Tim Kellogg
“some are guessing that Ilya Surskever’s SSI is developing continual learning source: x.com/imjustnewata...”
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“some are guessing that Ilya Surskever’s SSI is developing continual learning source: x.com/imjustnewata...”
2 experts discussed this · 3 posts
Tim Kellogg: some are guessing that Ilya Surskever’s SSI is developing continual learning source: x.com/imjustnewata...
tachikoma: the question is why other labs aren't pursuing such research directions - it's not like continual learning hasn't been identified by dozens of names as a promising avenue to human-like learning and…
Tim Kellogg: i unfortunately can’t speak about why they’re not seeing success. all i know is catastrophic forgetting has been a big problem Ilya seems to have gone back to the brain for inspiration, whatever th…
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OpenAI GPT-5.6 model family launch
1 directory member surfaced this signal.
Why this matches
Building & implementation reaction
1 attributable expert contribution
· Tim Kellogg
“GPT-5.6 System Card deploymentsafety.openai.com/gpt-5-6”
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“GPT-5.6 System Card deploymentsafety.openai.com/gpt-5-6”
CoreWeave Vera Rubin NVL72 benchmarks
2 experts are actively discussing the implications.
Why this matches
Building & implementation reaction
1 attributable expert contribution
· Tim Kellogg
“CoreWeave got an NVIDIA Vera Rubin NVL72 generating 10x more tokens per watt than blackwell (NVL72 = a specialized rack of 72 GPUs, the standard datacenter unit of deployment for hyperscalers) coreweave.com/blog/nvidia-...”
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“CoreWeave got an NVIDIA Vera Rubin NVL72 generating 10x more tokens per watt than blackwell (NVL72 = a specialized rack of 72 GPUs, the standard datacenter unit of deployment for hyperscalers) coreweave.com/blog/nvidia-...”
2 experts discussed this · 3 posts
Tim Kellogg: CoreWeave got an NVIDIA Vera Rubin NVL72 generating 10x more tokens per watt than blackwell (NVL72 = a specialized rack of 72 GPUs, the standard datacenter unit of deployment for hyperscalers) core…
Tim Kellogg: in US AI datacenters, power is the biggest constraint today (not true in China) so this directly translates into a obvious upgrade, massive unlock for hyperscalers, or anyone running AI inference w…
Nafnlaus 🇮🇸 🇺🇦: Crazy numbers!
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