Cloud Giants Converge on a Handful of Models
menhguin · x · 2026-07-19
The author argues that mega-cloud providers are converging to serve only a few models: $SPCX, $META, $AMZN, and $GOOGL are all serving Anthropic. They point out that the most critical upstream question right now isn't just model capability, but **whether the recent wave of model releases actually drove usage growth**. A reply adds that while they won't claim to know what frontier labs are currently doing, they expect this growth trend to continue, as the industry has entered a new phase where "models are running their own ablation experiments."
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