# Anthropic — Our position on open-weights models

- Company: Anthropic (anthropic.com)
- Announced: 2026-07-27T00:00:00+00:00
- Subject: Claude
- Source: https://www.anthropic.com/news/position-open-weights-models
- Record: https://forck.live/items/3254-our-position-on-open-weights-models

Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei states the company's position on open-weights models, clarifying that Anthropic has never advocated for a ban on open-weights models, supports open-weights models that lack dangerous capabilities as a public good, and outlines three specific policy measures: restricting chip sales to China, cracking down on distillation operations, and requiring mandatory safety testing for all sufficiently capable models.

## Evidence

Verbatim from https://www.anthropic.com/news/position-open-weights-models:

> Anthropic has never advocated for a ban on open-weights models. Open-weights models that don't have dangerous capabilities are a public good: they don't cost anything besides the compute needed to run them, and they provide value to businesses, developers, and researchers.

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