It could be argued this makes it harder for open source. If a company has a choice between deploying their own instance of Kimi, and taking on any risk themselves, or paying for Claude and letting anthropic take the risk, who are they going to pick?
They may not have that choice, because Anthropic would be crazy to take on unlimited risk like that.
So Anthropic can either shut down (and maybe that’s good), or start finding creative ways to monetize letting other people run its models (which means giving them the weights). The only real roadblock to that is that the weights aren’t eligible for any copyright protection and therefore can’t really be licensed, but they might be able to find a way around that.
In the “Anthropic shuts down” fork, the only models left are the open ones.
I think in guidance for judges it should be made clear that the purpose of the legislation is not to shut down the companies, and that amounts imposed should be reasonable and not excessive.
It could be argued this makes it harder for open source. If a company has a choice between deploying their own instance of Kimi, and taking on any risk themselves, or paying for Claude and letting anthropic take the risk, who are they going to pick?
They may not have that choice, because Anthropic would be crazy to take on unlimited risk like that.
So Anthropic can either shut down (and maybe that’s good), or start finding creative ways to monetize letting other people run its models (which means giving them the weights). The only real roadblock to that is that the weights aren’t eligible for any copyright protection and therefore can’t really be licensed, but they might be able to find a way around that.
In the “Anthropic shuts down” fork, the only models left are the open ones.
I think in guidance for judges it should be made clear that the purpose of the legislation is not to shut down the companies, and that amounts imposed should be reasonable and not excessive.