Anthropic’s Antitrust Advantage

As officials from Lina Khan’s Federal Trade Commission scrutinize the role that cloud providers play in OpenAI and Anthropic, one thing they should recognize quickly is that the two startups’ relationships with their big cloud-shareholders are not the same. Anthropic has a lot more independence from its shareholders than OpenAI. 

For instance, Microsoft has access to the weights of OpenAI’s GPT-4 model, which means that they could recreate much of the AI software OpenAI has been building, according to a …

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