Coordinated AI slowdown could send OpenAI and Anthropic 'to zero', argues Ben Todd
ben_j_todd · x · 2026-09-10
OpenAI and Anthropic can only charge a margin insofar as they outperform open source, Ben Todd argues. A coordinated slowdown gives open models more time to catch up — it is not in their financial interest, and given their huge compute commitments, it could even send them to zero.
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