Anthropic Shows Why Mission-Driven Distinctiveness Matters

America’s artificial intelligence titans recently banded together to urge the government not to restrict so-called open-weight AI models, or those that are publicly available for users to freely download and run on their own platforms, so that they can better compete with the ones coming out of China. All the usual suspects - Nvidia Corp., OpenAI and Google-parent Alphabet Inc. - were on board with one exception: Anthropic PBC.