Will frontier labs hoard their math-breaking models? An oligopoly argument
IridiumEagle · x · 2026-10-08
IridiumEagle argues OpenAI and Anthropic will never publicly release models producing mathematical breakthroughs: OpenAI raises private money on math/physics claims, Anthropic raises public money LARP-ing as enterprise-adjacent while keeping the best models internal. He then asks how far behind Chinese labs are — if close, releasing open models would shatter the curated oligopoly economy.
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