Anthropic International Director: Open-Source Models Inherently Carry Greater Risks

This view reflects the disagreement among Anthropic's senior executives over the level of risk posed by proprietary AI models compared with open-weight versions.

This view shows the difference of opinion of the senior executives of Anthropic about the level of risk of proprietary models against open versions of artificial intelligence.

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The director of the international department of Anthropic Company has stated that open source models carry more risks by definition than the proprietary models of this company. These statements are a much broader claim about the dangers of artificial intelligence than the previous position of "Dario Amudi", the CEO of this company. Amudi had previously announced that models with open weights that do not have dangerous capabilities are considered public goods.

Guillaume Persen, director of Anthropic, expressed this view during a government meeting in Dublin. He emphasized that in the field of artificial intelligence safety, one should be very careful about open source models; Because this category of models, based on the definition that exists for them, creates many more risks. Open source models are basically models whose code, architecture, and processing weights are publicly released and any user can download and run or modify them on their personal systems.

These statements have been made at the same time as the competition of European companies has intensified. Last week, Mistral introduced the Large 4 model called Le Chonk; A model with one trillion parameters, trained in Europe and emphasizing data governance. Of course, the release of the open weights of this model is not yet finalized, and the current access is only possible through the Mistral API, and the release of the weights is scheduled for October 27 (November 5).

While Persen has pointed out the concerns about open source models, some researches have brought the same results in recent weeks. For example, evaluations by SaferAI found that the Chinese GLM-5.2 model did not pass any tasks related to malicious cyberattacks or dual-purpose biology; While the entropic Claude model rejected so many requests due to safety considerations that it was not possible to finish the benchmark. Research by Anthropic's Frontier Red Team had also shown that small models were able to be replicated on low-cost Android TV boxes, and all models in the test, including Gemma4 and GLM-5.2, were open source.

About the pricing of the models, Prensen also announced that the usual cost of the Claude Opus 5.5 has been reduced by 40% compared to its predecessor. This savings is the result of a 20% drop in the official price and a reduction in the use of tokens in the new version.

Finally, it should be noted that the claim of the director of Entropic was made at the official artificial intelligence summit under the supervision of the European Union in Dublin, Ireland. According to some publications, the choice of Ireland is marginalizing; Because this country has become their tax haven in Europe for many years due to the very low taxation of technology giants and is making huge profits from this money; As far as the civil institutions believe, the Irish government cannot be neutral in the management of artificial intelligence laws because of this financial gain. In the meantime, Entropic also has great benefits; Europe is its fastest growing market, the company's first European office has been established in Dublin, and as it approaches an IPO with an astronomical valuation of $965 billion, it is deeply concerned about losing market to European rivals.

My professional career in the world of technology goes back almost 10 years; The path that started with hardware, continued with software, and now continues as a technology reporter in Sefir Arjan. I am Javad and more than three decades have passed and in addition to the world of technology, I love movies and cinema, classic rock music and Real Madrid.