Anthropic's CEO Says Open Source Can't Save You

Anthropic's CEO Dario Amodei finally broke his silence on open source, and his answer is more complicated than either side wants it to be. He argues that open weights help, but nowhere near enough to decentralize AI power, because the concentration simply shifts to whoever holds the most compute and chips. Nick and Jack dig into whether governments are remotely capable of regulating this, why open models sitting six months behind the frontier still matter enormously, and what the Pacing the Frontier letter actually commits the labs to. Then it gets personal: OpenAI's Codex lead starts taking shots at the Claude team, kicking off a real debate about GPT 5.6 versus Opus 5 in day-to-day work, whether model intelligence is quietly being throttled, and why switching costs in AI are effectively zero. Plus NVIDIA's $3 billion energy bet and just how circular this investment loop has become. Watch on YouTube: https://youtu.be/EHVPm8JB_qo Step-by-step roadmap to $25K w/ AI: https://leftclicker.gumroad.com/l/110-steps Main channels: youtube.com/@nicksaraev & youtube.com/@Itssssss_Jack