Overview

• Jensen Huang has accused Amodei of believing only Anthropic can build AI safely, alleging he seeks to control the industry under the guise of safety.
• On July 30’s Big Technology podcast, Amodei dismissed the monopoly claim as “the most outrageous lie I’ve ever heard,” insisting his focus has always been on safety rather than market dominance.
• He traced his urgency for stringent AI oversight back to his father’s death in 2006, citing a rapid medical breakthrough as the personal impetus for responsible technology development.
• Amodei champions a “race to the top” through strong regulation and “responsible scaling” policies, and he contends that the open-source debate is a red herring given the opacity of large language models.
• Nvidia warns that advocating for regulatory capture against open source risks stifling innovation, undermining AI security and making the technology less democratic.