You will notice that Anthropic is getting sympathy from no one. They trained their models with trillions of tokens of text and information from all over the web, books, and all kinds of copyrighted material. While companies like MIS-Anthropic keep their models as proprietary LLMs, any of these Chinese companies release their models as open weights, and are free for anyone with the hardware to use. Meanwhile, they keep loudly positioning themselves as the "responsible" safety-first company... they basically ate the entire web, then gatekeep the resulting model, + pushed hard for regulation. This has rubbed a lot of people, even the pro AI people, the wrong way. Closed models created with public data capture the value, create massive economic moats, and invite exactly the kind of regulatory-capture we're seeing. They want to keep exploiting available data while wanting special rules protecting their profits. This paradigm is toxic and corrosive when the technology is so disruptive. The entire concept of LLM scaling relies on public data, yet the rewards are privatized and monopolized by whoever has the best distribution/compute (Anthropic, OpenAI, Google). This is a recipe for a disaster where the most powerful tech is controlled by a few elites. Open weights are the closest thing we have to pushing back against that.