Ethan Mollick: OpenAI and Anthropic compete at the cheap end, not just the frontier
eldonredwards · x · 2026-10-13
Responding to Azeem Azem's point that OpenAI and Anthropic compete at the cheap end of the market, Ethan Mollick argues both are best positioned to optimize AI cost/intelligence by combining agents of different ability levels, specifically trained to work together within their own harnesses — a systems-level play rather than relying on a single frontier model.
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