Critic says OpenAI and Anthropic’s token-selling model is anti-competitive and unsound
arian_ghashghai · x · 2026-07-23
The author argues that builders, investors and consumers would be better off if OpenAI and Anthropic failed—or at least if their token-selling business model did. They describe the duopoly as anti-science outside its own labs, structurally anti-competitive, and financially unsound, while also accusing it of seeking regulatory capture to socialize costs.
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