OpenAI and Anthropic aren't 'labs' anymore — they're massive revenue-generating businesses
neil_chilson · x · 2026-09-30
Neil Chilson questions why people still call OpenAI and Anthropic "labs." They are massive, revenue-generating businesses, he argues, and need to shed the label and embrace the transformation into actual companies — with all that implies for accountability and expectations.
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