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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