# Amodei Argues Open Weights Are Not the Same as Open Source

Anthropic's chief executive says releasing model weights does not deliver the inspectability that made open source valuable elsewhere, sharpening a definitional fight over openness.

- Published: 2026-07-01T10:44:10.216Z
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Anthropic chief executive Dario Amodei argued that open source does not work in AI the way it has worked in other software domains. His point is definitional. With traditional open source you can read the source code, whereas releasing a mo…

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