Martin Casado Quotes Adam Smith to Hint AI Labs May Be Colluding on Pricing
illscience · x · 2026-09-13
a16z partner Martin Casado posted Adam Smith's famous line that people of the same trade seldom meet without the conversation ending in 'a conspiracy against the public, or in some contrivance to raise prices.' Widely read as a jab at frontier labs' coordinated pacing statements amid the open-vs-closed debate.
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