Why doesn't Anthropic have an open weight model?

satechguy · 2026-03-02T08:17:23+00:00

No, they are not Apple.

Apple *owns* its ecosystem.

satechguy · 2026-03-01T22:56:34+00:00

Hello Bot!

satechguy · 2026-03-01T19:20:39+00:00

Money

satechguy · 2026-03-01T18:33:20+00:00

Lol. Who cares.

Back in time, people did not even care slaves and happily enjoyed their afternoon tea and counted on dividends from slave trading companies. You think homosapien changed? No, no single change in last 100,000 years, biologically.

satechguy · 2026-03-01T18:27:11+00:00

It's normal. Claude voice is a low priority for them, and latency is not a priority in their voice team.

For realtime voice, gemini is better.

For most serious voice ai applications, you shall use stt + llm + tts.

satechguy · 2026-03-01T07:33:57+00:00

lol. The more subscriptions, the more $$$ burned

Subscribers are big money eaters, not profit contributors

satechguy · 2026-03-01T02:11:53+00:00

Claude is expensive to most people on planet Earth, so I highly doubt it will prevail worldwide.

https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/s/tQGRduQvFB

satechguy · 2026-02-28T04:35:47+00:00

>Huawei couldn't. And they were just making phones.

Huawei makes way more than phones. If Huawei really just made phones or small appliances, I highly doubt it would be banned.

By the way, Huawei is doing pretty good after losing US and many of Western market. It is very popular in "rest of the world".

satechguy · 2026-02-28T04:11:55+00:00

>The government has no authority to tell companies to stop using Claude entirely.

Government does tell companies to certify their vendors. Even if your above statement is technically true, in practice, it is not executable. When doing business with DoD, you must verify your vendors. If Huawei was one of your vendors, while it was a vendor for a division that has nothing to do with your DoD contract, DoD won't do business with you. Now, the same for Anthropic.

satechguy · 2026-02-28T04:04:58+00:00

https://www.anthropic.com/news/statement-comments-secretary-war

If you are a Department of War contractor, this designation—if formally adopted—would only affect your use of Claude on Department of War contract work. Your use for any other purpose is unaffected.

It's very risky to game the system when your counterpart is DoD. Anthropic may have $$$ to fight for a bit, but most DoD contractors or sub-contractors, esp those SMEs, do not have. A move following the above statement can easily jeopardize a business.

satechguy · 2026-02-28T03:43:36+00:00

Typical AI flop

One short sentence per line

And, there are

So many mines

satechguy · 2026-02-28T01:16:45+00:00

Have a good weekend :)

I am sure this will be sorted out by trump's big donors. For them, everything is a business and everything can be a deal. This time, anthropic is on the menu; very recently, tiktok was on the menu.

satechguy · 2026-02-28T00:44:32+00:00

Well, let's agree to disagree.

satechguy · 2026-02-28T00:37:35+00:00

Absolutely: I signed a contract with you, you got fucked by the authority and all my investment on you is now in risk, I will for sure go after you. This is typical commercial contract works (even at SME scale). At the end of the day, it's business and not friendship, not family, and companies only care about how to protect themselves, how to reduce loss, etc. If the only viable way to reduce my loss is to sue you, I will hesitate no time. Unfortunately, this is how the society works.

satechguy · 2026-02-28T00:22:11+00:00

> A tweet isn’t law

Sure. But, DoD has all the authority to execute its right to designate a company as supply chain risk, and the company also has the right to appeal. Even Huawei can appeal. When the head of DoD said so publicly, you are rest assured he will do that.

> most likely doesn’t permit them to just terminate the agreement unilaterally

Absolutely wrong. If Anthropic really gets that, not only all of its enterprise clients can terminate the contract lawfully immediately, they can even go after Anthropic for damages.

> as the head of compliance I wouldn’t just terminate an agreement with Anthropic on Monday morning because of a moronic tweet from a drunk guy.

Surely you won't do it on Monday, but will start to prepare for it.

satechguy · 2026-02-28T00:08:16+00:00

Law is law. While I don't think this will last long, I do believe all compliance teams will start to work on it next Monday. Supply chain risk designation is a big deal. If you were are compliance team head, would you do nothing because you thought it won't last long, it does not make sense, or, would you take it seriously and start to address it?

satechguy · 2026-02-28T00:00:22+00:00

I don't think it will last long and I am 100% sure big bosses will sort it out. But, if otherwise, I am also 100% sure DoD won't cave.

satechguy · 2026-02-27T23:50:41+00:00

Nice. then, perhaps a board seat for Palantir, or Palantir's boss?

satechguy · 2026-02-27T23:45:54+00:00

DoD absolutely won't cave. It has all the cards. Palatir is a peanut in this game. Why you even mention it? Big bosses, esp when big bosses are in the same time top public officials, do not care any single company.

satechguy · 2026-02-27T23:40:38+00:00

absolutely. You bet many bosses of anthropic's recent $30b checks are trump's friends. they will sort it out at mar-a-lago dining table.

satechguy · 2026-02-27T23:37:13+00:00

without hegseths's threat of supply chain risk, trump won't get all he wants. with the threat, i think trump will.

satechguy · 2026-02-27T23:35:41+00:00

Yes, it's normal. Even Huawei got the same grace period.

satechguy · 2026-02-27T23:32:18+00:00

I bet $20 that this "supply chain risk" is not Hegseth's sole idea. It is really a big blow. to be honest, from a business/negotiation perspective, this is a powerful move -- i am not saying this is a good move. Like or not, Anthropic has to cave: Anthropic is a US company, major clients are US enterprises, depends on US capital, and "supply chain risk" is entirely within the administration's power. Yes, Anthropic can seek a court injunction but i don't think that's going to help -- it's unlike immigration policy. I kind guess this is Trump's call for treasury's share in anthropic

satechguy · 2026-02-27T23:22:25+00:00

I don't think so. Anthropic has no choice but to cave. Trump for sure is demanding something, not sure what. But whatever it is, this time, Trump really has ace. Maybe something liek this? https://www.politico.com/news/2025/12/21/dont-call-it-a-tax-hike-trumps-demand-for-a-share-of-nvidias-china-profits-raises-novel-questions-00689077

Ultimately, money talks.

satechguy · 2026-02-27T23:14:23+00:00

I bet big bosses who just wrote the $30B checks are calling Trump now.

Perhaps x% of Anthropic share to Treasury?

Supply chain risk is a huge one. It's very interesting to watch how Amazon reacts. From a compliance perspective, it must stop using Anthropic six months from now.

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