David Sacks not happy with ‘Chinese’ tag for Open source AI models that Anthropic wants banned

David Sacks, co-chair of the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology, has accused AI giant Anthropic of attempting to stifle competition in the AI industry by seeking restrictions on open-source models. According to a report by Benzinga, speaking on the All-In Podcast, Sacks said that labelling Chinese-origin open-source AI models as tainted by intellectual property theft would discourage American developers from building on publicly available models. He also warned that such a move would “put a dagger through the heart of the entire American open source ecosystem,” adding that Anthropic “doesn’t want to have the competition.”Open source AI is global Sacks further argued that once model weights are released publicly, they are no longer tied to their country of origin. Developers across the world, including in the US can legally download, modify and also train them on their own infrastructure.