Ethan Mollick: growing internal-external model gap may push labs into finance and biotech
emollick · x · 2026-10-24
Ethan Mollick argues that as the gap between AI labs' internal models and their released models widens (due to safety concerns and research advantages), OpenAI and Anthropic will find it increasingly tempting to exploit that advantage directly by entering new markets, especially finance and biotech — competing downstream rather than just selling models.
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