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Somebody needs to tell Dario Amodei that competition and collaboration make the world a better place

Enrique Dans
Enrique Dans
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IMAGE: An illustration showing how collaboration is better than competition

There was a time when Dario Amodei commanded a certain intellectual respect… until a few days ago, when I read his pathetically simplistic article calling for more sanctions and controls on the export of chips to China.

Now that Deepseek has shown how Chinese companies can outperform their US competitors at a fraction of the cost, adding insult to injury by using their models, Amodei and his Big Tech bros believe the answer is to double down and toughen export controls to prevent China from accessing US chips.

What is Amodei trying to achieve? In his own words, preventing China from buying the millions of chips needed to navigate the scaling laws would create a “unipolar world” in which only the United States and its allies can have access to the most advanced models, instead of living in a “bipolar world” in which China and the United States compete for the best models.

What is Amodei really saying here? He’s looking out for the interests of his company, Anthropic, which once adhered to certain principles, but is now just an employee of Amazon and Google, which have invested billions in it. Now he has seen what Deepseek can do, he’s running scared.

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Enrique Dans
Enrique Dans

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On the effects of technology and innovation on people, companies and society (writing in Spanish at enriquedans.com since 2003)

Enrique Dans
Enrique Dans

Written by Enrique Dans

Professor of Innovation at IE Business School and blogger (in English here and in Spanish at enriquedans.com)

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