https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49076057 ("Our position on open-weights models (anthropic.com)", 1812 comments)

I see. The following two statements (headlines) stand out:

* We should not sell powerful chips or chipmaking equipment to China

* We should crack down on industrial-scale distillation operations

That's not quite a ban of local ML inference, but it basically says that he doesn't want companies in China to create their own state of the art models.