xAI was made to stop Anthropic to stop OpenAI to stop Google — and Google feared killing its ads business
SuB8u · x · 2026-09-11
A widely shared quip maps the AI lab arms race as a chain of mutual containment: xAI was created to stop Anthropic, which was created to stop OpenAI, which was created to stop Google — and Google would arguably never have built ASI anyway, for fear of cannibalizing its search ads revenue. The one-liner neatly captures the irony of safety narratives layered over commercial motives.
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