Zuckerberg's 6,500-Word Essay Names the Closed Labs — and Anthropic's Dario Amodei Specifically — as the Concentration-of-Power Risk
Alongside the Muse Glimmer release, Zuckerberg published a 6,500-word essay on August 10 arguing that closed frontier labs risk concentrating too much power in too few hands, framing American open weights as the answer to Chinese open-source models and urging Washington to back the effort. The sharpest lines land on Amodei's doomer framing: "I do not understand why anyone who believes that AI will eliminate most jobs and much of humanity's relevance would rush to build that future," and "The notion that AI is so dangerous that the only safe path is an extreme concentration of power seems inherently problematic." Matthew Berman's 37-minute breakdown (August 11) reads it as Meta re-entering the open-weights fight it abandoned when it pivoted to a money-making model in December 2025.
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