It seems plausible that this scenario could happen, i.e., that Anthropic and OpenAI end up in a stable two-player oligopoly. But I would still be pretty surprised if Anthropic’s pitch to investors, when asking for billions of dollars in funding, is that they pre-commit to never release a substantially better product than their main competitor.
How surprising would you say you find the idea of a startup trying to, and successfully raising, not billions but tens of billions of dollars by pitching investors they’re asking that their investment could be canceled at any time at the wave of a hand, the startup pre-commits that the investments will be canceled in the best-case scenario of the product succeeding, & that the investors ought to consider their investment “in the spirit of a donation”?
It seems plausible that this scenario could happen, i.e., that Anthropic and OpenAI end up in a stable two-player oligopoly. But I would still be pretty surprised if Anthropic’s pitch to investors, when asking for billions of dollars in funding, is that they pre-commit to never release a substantially better product than their main competitor.
How surprising would you say you find the idea of a startup trying to, and successfully raising, not billions but tens of billions of dollars by pitching investors they’re asking that their investment could be canceled at any time at the wave of a hand, the startup pre-commits that the investments will be canceled in the best-case scenario of the product succeeding, & that the investors ought to consider their investment “in the spirit of a donation”?