Everyone Is Freaking Out About OpenAI and Anthropic’s Race for Dominance
Maxwell ZeffBusinessJul 30, 2026 4:12 PMEveryone Is Freaking Out About OpenAI and Anthropic’s Race for DominanceResearchers fear AI is moving too fast, while Mark Zuckerberg is worried about who owns it. In response, most of the tech industry—except Anthropic—signed onto an open letter from Nvidia asking the US government to protect open-weight AI models, arguing they’re a necessary counterbalance to their closed counterparts.These events might look like a whole bunch of disjointed chaos. But I think they are evidence of a larger worldview taking hold in Silicon Valley, where many tech insiders are increasingly worried about OpenAI and Anthropic’s dominance.
- ▪Maxwell ZeffBusinessJul 30, 2026 4:12 PMEveryone Is Freaking Out About OpenAI and Anthropic’s Race for DominanceResearchers fear AI is moving too fast, while Mark Zuckerberg is worried about who owns it.
- ▪In response, most of the tech industry—except Anthropic—signed onto an open letter from Nvidia asking the US government to protect open-weight AI models, arguing they’re a necessary counterbalance to their closed counterparts.These events m
- ▪But I think they are evidence of a larger worldview taking hold in Silicon Valley, where many tech insiders are increasingly worried about OpenAI and Anthropic’s dominance.
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Maxwell ZeffBusinessJul 30, 2026 4:12 PMEveryone Is Freaking Out About OpenAI and Anthropic’s Race for DominanceResearchers fear AI is moving too fast, while Mark Zuckerberg is worried about who owns it. Plus: Inside Black Forest Labs’ push into robotics.Photo-Illustration: WIRED Staff; Getty ImagesCommentLoaderSave StorySave this storyCommentLoaderSave StorySave this storyI was offline last week in my home state of New Jersey, but when I got back to Silicon Valley, everyone was panicking again about how quickly artificial intelligence is advancing.
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