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Anthropic CEO says AI centralizes by nature and open models just shift power to whoever owns the chips: Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei...

Said AI tends to centralize power and that open models only shift control to whoever owns the most compute, drawing criticism from Gavin Baker, David Sacks, and Yann LeCun on X. The exchange underscores a growing split over AI regulation and the role of open-source models.

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Anthropic CEO says AI centralizes by nature and open models just shift power to whoever owns the chips: Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei said AI tends to centralize power and that open models only shift control to whoever owns the most compute, drawing criticism from Gavin Baker, David Sacks, and Yann LeCun on X. The exchange underscores a growing split over AI regulation and the role of open-source models.