Gary Marcus: OpenAI and Anthropic Are Selling $1,000 Bottles of Perrier
GaryMarcus · x · 2026-09-14
Gary Marcus endorses Andrew Orlowski's analogy: OpenAI and Anthropic are trying to sell billions of bottles of Perrier at £1,000 each in a world that just got ubiquitous clean tap water. A few will sell, but investors will carry the hit — slowdown or not.
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