… Now Anthropic’s CEO has published his own thoughts on the matter, clarifying, “Anthropic has never advocated for a ban on open-weights models.” Link: Our position on open-weights models | https://www.anthropic.com/news/position-open-weights-models | Anthropic
… The matter at question is model distillation, a common industry practice by which one larger AI model acts as a “teacher” of sorts to pass on knowledge to a smaller AI model, the “student.” Although it’s often used legitimately within companies using one of their own AI models to train another, it’… …
… But the company was careful to say in a release that it has stronger cybersecurity safeguards than its predecessor, Opus 4.8, and that it’s “the most aligned Opus model and is the least susceptible to being tricked into misuse.” With the new model’s release, the company also seems to subtly address… …
… As far as distillation and improper information harvesting, there’s Anthropic’s accusations to Chinese AI companies and xAI’s alleged distillation of OpenAI’s models. …
… But the situation is that Mythos is the underlying model that is powering both Mythos 5 and Fable 5. Fable is a new model. …
… For people for whom it wasn’t top of mind, they made it top of mind.” Suddenly, voters who’d been unaware of Bores were getting mailers and ads describing him as anti-AI and pro-regulation, highlighting his authorship of the RAISE Act, a New York state law that placed restrictions on the release of… …
… Just like every other product, they get slightly better every year until the fifth yearly model, which is a step change better than the model people might be familiar with. …
… Google employees argued their company should take a stand — and it did, choosing not to renew its contract amid the controversy in mid-2018. …
… This is a very, very strong model, and it wasn’t just that model that we released. We’ve released seven new models simultaneously. Our transcribed model, for example, MAI-Transcribe-1.5 is literally the number one in the world. …
… There’s a lot of controversy, or I guess curiosity, around Gemini 4, which is not yet out. They announced it at Google I/O. They put all their emphasis on the 3.5 class models. The 3.5 class models are not at the top of the leaderboards. …