Anthropic DOESN’T Release A Model

Anthropic DOESN’T Release A Model

Author: Morning Brew April 8, 2026 Duration: 20:55
I’ve got another potential tipping point day for you. Anthropic is making yet more shockwaves across the industry by NOT releasing a model. Why? Because it could potentially break everything software related. Does that matter if the Chinese AI companies will just release everything open source? And Elon says he personally doesn’t want a dime from Sam Altman. Anthropic says its most powerful AI cyber model is too dangerous to release publicly — so it built Project Glasswing (VentureBeat) AI joins the 8-hour work day as GLM ships 5.1 open source LLM, beating Opus 4.6 and GPT-5.4 on SWE-Bench Pro (VentureBeat) Elon Musk Asks for OpenAI’s Nonprofit to Get Any Damages From His Lawsuit (WSJ) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Duration: 15:28
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