The One Name Still Off the Letter
Twenty-five companies put their names on the Open Weights and American AI Leadership letter on Friday, Google and OpenAI added theirs over the weekend, and Anthropic's line is still blank. We work out what a signature on that document actually costs, and whether anything about anyone's release calendar changes because of it.
Demis Hassabis on why Google signed — he lists Jax, Transformers, AlphaFold, and Gemma. Only Gemma competes with something Google sells, which makes the next Gemma the test of whether the signature meant anything.
David Sacks calls it regulatory capture — a sitting…
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