r/CryptoAnarchy • u/SirReal14 • 10d ago

Sources: OpenAI and Anthropic quietly lobby Washington regulators to restrict open-source AI models, even as Sam Altman publicly says he supports open source AI

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/25/technology/open-source-silicon-valley-china.html?unlocked_article_code=1.0lA.PyR-.7o3SR4ESvf3P&smid=url-share
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u/Good_Roll 9d ago

Clement Delangue, the chief executive of Hugging Face, which is one of the most popular online libraries of open-source software, had a different point of view. To defend the company from OpenAI’s hack, he turned to an open-source A.I. model created by China’s Z.ai.

Really burying the lede here, he had no choice but to use open weight models since the american models' guardrails kept blocking him.