> > All sufficiently capable models, open and closed, should go through mandatory safety testing.

> Yeah, this is anthropic advocating for a ban on open weight models.

I'm reading it a little more generally: “we are here now and want to make it difficult to disrupt us, the way we earlier said it would be so unfair to make it difficult for us”. Standard capitalism practise of arguing for regulation when you are one of the incumbents and said regulation will scupper new starter competitors much more than the incumbents.