I Hate Dario Amodei, and everything he stands for.
I am so incredibly sick of this guy‘s fear mongering about open source while fundamentally misunderstanding how it actually works. He recently dropped some arguments that are so completely detached from reality, it honestly feels like he’s never even touched a local model in his life.
Just look at the bullsh*t he is pushing
"With open source software you can see the source, here you cannot see inside the model"
Yes you can??? That is literally the entire point of open weights. I can’t see the weights inside Claude because Anthropic locks it in a black box, but I can look right inside GLM 5.2. And models like Nemotron3 Ultra go even further, all the data, the training scripts, and the model weights are 100% open source. To say you can't see inside them is just flat-out false.
"A lot of the benefits like many people working on it, being additive doesn't work in same way“
Has he even glanced at HuggingFace lately? It works exactly that way. We see endless fine-tunes, merges, and LoRAs of base open source models that result in massive, real world improvements every single day. The community is constantly building on top of each other's work.
"Ultimately you have to host it on the cloud"
No you don't. This is the part that proves how completely insulated he is. He is seemingly totally unaware of smaller MoEs and dense models like Qwen 27B. We are running these locally on our own hardware, not paying for AWS or Azure.
I know Dario notoriously avoids social media and the broader community, but this is just embarrassing. I genuinely think he has never tried open source models and has absolutely no clue wtf he is on about. It’s painfully obvious he’s just making shit up to protect his closed source monopoly.
Edit: To many comments have been saying that I am referencing a hearing that happened in 2023. This is false. My statement and I stand by it, is referenced to his hearing in front of congress in June 28th, 2026
Here is a short clip of talking about open source, I have been unable to find a longer video.
https://x.com/BitcoinNewsCom/status/2071232913270542828
Edit 2: I stand corrected on the dates. I didn't do my due diligence, let my biases get the best of me, and I fully own that mistake. I won't delete the original text so the history of this post remains transparent. All that being said, I still hate Dario and everything he stands for.