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Xin Eric Wang, UCSB professor and SimularAI research head, argues OpenAI has contributed more to public AI research than Anthropic

AI Judge changed title after evaluation, original title: "Xin Eric Wang, SimularAI head of research, argues OpenAI has contributed more to public research historically than Anthropic"

Wang cited OpenAI's releases of GPT-2, CLIP, and Codex.

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Xin Eric Wang@xwang_lk#407inAI

If you really think about it, despite being mocked as “ClosedAI,” OpenAI has contributed enormously to the field: GPT, GPT-2, GPT-3, CLIP, the ChatGPT paper, the GPT-4 Technical Report, the Sora technical blog, and even open-sourced Codex.

Anthropic, meanwhile, has contributed far less to the public research ecosystem while increasingly promoting fear-based narratives and restricting access through heavy gatekeeping.

The world I least want to live in is one where the future of AI is controlled by companies that prioritize secrecy, gated access, and centralized control over openness, reproducibility, and scientific progress.

2:16 PM · Jun 9, 2026 · 13.3K Views

/AI3h ago

Xin Eric Wang, UCSB professor and SimularAI research head, argues OpenAI has contributed more to public AI research than Anthropic

AI Judge changed title after evaluation, original title: "Xin Eric Wang, SimularAI head of research, argues OpenAI has contributed more to public research historically than Anthropic"

Wang cited OpenAI's releases of GPT-2, CLIP, and Codex.

33336302616.1K

#157

Original post

Xin Eric Wang@xwang_lk#407inAI

Anthropic, meanwhile, has contributed far less to the public research ecosystem while increasingly promoting fear-based narratives and restricting access through heavy gatekeeping.

2:16 PM · Jun 9, 2026 · 13.3K Views

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Positive users praise OpenAI for releasing models like Whisper, GPT-OSS, and DALL-E plus usable products and open talks, while negative users insult Anthropic as power-hungry and dismiss OpenAI's openness claims.

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Gary Marcus@GaryMarcus

@xwang_lk openai hasn’t released much in years but it’s an interesting point.

Xin Eric Wang@xwang_lk

Anthropic, meanwhile, has contributed far less to the public research ecosystem while increasingly promoting fear-based narratives and restricting access through heavy gatekeeping.

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Jason Wang@JasonWang140136

@xwang_lk and they had the nerve to educate open sourced models on dictatorship!!!

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Gary Marcus@GaryMarcus

@xwang_lk well, they aren’t gonna get medal for openness, but ok :)

Xin Eric Wang@xwang_lk

@GaryMarcus Yes, but I think they started to release a little bit more since last year, such as gpt-oss and codex.

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Xin Eric Wang@xwang_lk

@GaryMarcus Yes, but I think they started to release a little bit more since last year, such as gpt-oss and codex.

Gary Marcus@GaryMarcus

@xwang_lk openai hasn’t released much in years but it’s an interesting point.

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Pasquale Minervini@PMinervini

@xwang_lk the GPT-OSS models are also fairly decent

Xin Eric Wang@xwang_lk

Anthropic, meanwhile, has contributed far less to the public research ecosystem while increasingly promoting fear-based narratives and restricting access through heavy gatekeeping.

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Andrew Mayne@AndrewMayne

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Xin Eric Wang@xwang_lk

Anthropic, meanwhile, has contributed far less to the public research ecosystem while increasingly promoting fear-based narratives and restricting access through heavy gatekeeping.

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Frosty40@FrostForger

@xwang_lk Openai has contributed To ai by releasing usable products and not gaslighting the public nearly as much as the other clown on stage

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Hanchi Sun@sun_hanchi

@xwang_lk gpt-oss

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Xin Eric Wang@xwang_lk

@GaryMarcus certainly not. ;D

Gary Marcus@GaryMarcus

@xwang_lk well, they aren’t gonna get medal for openness, but ok :)

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Wajdi 📈@wajdi_bs

@xwang_lk and down the line, companies that used "closed source" as a business model ended up being surpassed by competitors, and dropped by customers opting for open source or transparent tools..... Redis, elastic, HashiCorp, octoberCMS, MongoDB, Movable Type..... the list keeps growing

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studious unc@central9dogma

@xwang_lk Meanwhile, Apple has Siri

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Andrew Mayne@AndrewMayne

@xwang_lk Whisper alone was a huge game changer.

Not to mention MRC which flew under most people's radar but is a billion-dollar date center optimization protocol they open sourced:

https://openai.com/index/mrc-supercomputer-networking/

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Rogu@RomanGuy20

@xwang_lk Yes.

Appearing vs. being.

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LIKA@lika_build

@xwang_lk Totally agree. And also the talents coming out from OpenAI with open speeches. That’s why I want to build more community in the Bay area let people share. If we do not open model, we can open our opinions.

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Zhiwei@lian75864

@xwang_lk Fuck Anthropic

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Epstein's Stylist@epstein_stylist

@xwang_lk This only makes sense if you genuinely don't think much of AI risks

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Apex machine intelligence@youngand_broked

@xwang_lk 是的

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i miss the sun@1_missthesun

@xwang_lk or maybe, they are good people, and know there are people who won't do correct things, and take it upon themselves? there is no 'what anthropic is doing is good or bad'. it's simply: they are good, what they are doing makes sense. they are bad, what they are doing is dystopian.

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Xin Eric Wang@xwang_lk

@PMinervini yeah, they are! and DALLE.

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Gonçalo Canhoto 🇵🇹@goncalo_canhoto

@xwang_lk I wonder what crosses Elon mind regarding this situation

He was always pro ai research that is open but at the same time now anthropic is a customer.. and he is always suspiciously quiet on this matter

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