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Leading AI company Anthropic does not support California's AI regulation bill, SB 1047, but is suggesting changes that could lead to a shift, per a letter shared exclusively with Axios Thursday.

SB 1047 from California State Sen. Scott Wiener passed the California Senate in May and could get a vote in the California Assembly next month.

The bill, which many startups and tech companies have come out against, would make AI developers legally liable for how others use their models and to make sure the models can't be used in dangerous ways.

Anthropic's letter to Buffy Wicks, chair of the California Assembly Appropriations Committee, suggests the bill shift to "outcome-based deterrence" from "pre-harm enforcement," letting AI companies develop and deploy safety protocols and be held liable for any catastrophes they cause.

As Meta announces its largest and most capable large language model yet with the Llama 3.1 405B, Mark Zuckerberg says it’s important technology isn’t controlled by a handful of companies.

Opting for a transparent approach, the CEO wrote a public letter on Tuesday (July 23) explaining why the LLM is open source and why this is ‘good for the world.’

The new Llama 3.1 405B is the company’s first frontier-level open source AI model. Unlike in previous releases, a greater focus on building a broader ecosystem has now been taken.

Zuckerberg explains how this move was taken to “ensure that we always have access to the best technology, and that we’re not locking into a competitor’s closed ecosystem where they can restrict what we build.

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