The Download: open model trade-offs and geothermal power’s promise

Summary

Anthropic released a report arguing that a powerful new model from the Chinese company Z.ai poses a major cyberattack risk, mainly because it is freely available for anyone to download and modify. The warning feeds a wider debate over whether frontier AI models should be open or kept behind the doors of frontier labs.

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