Would OpenAI be worth over $1.5T if Anthropic hadn't split off?
panickssery · x · 2026-11-14
A thought experiment: if Anthropic had never split from OpenAI, would OpenAI now be worth more than $1.5 trillion — and would its models be far better? The question probes how much the number of "key staff" at frontier labs actually drives capability.
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