Anthropic's Silence Is Fracturing the AI Open Source Consensus

Last Friday, dozens of tech companies including Nvidia, Hugging Face, and Mozilla jointly signed an open letter urging the US government not to restrict the international distribution of open-weight AI models, especially regarding China. The letter quickly spread through Silicon Valley, becoming a collective statement from the open-source camp. But one name's absence made this joint list look particularly glaring—Anthropic, the "safety-first" AI lab founded by former OpenAI employees, chose silence.