Closed doesn't always win over open. People said the same thing about Windows vs Linux, but even Microsoft was forced to admit defeat and support Linux.
All it takes is some large companies commoditizing their complements. For Linux it was Google, etc. For AI it's Meta and China.
The only thing keeping Anthropic in business is geopolitics. If China were allowed full access to GPUs, they would probably die.
> The only thing keeping Anthropic in business is geopolitics. If China were allowed full access to GPUs, they would probably die.
Disagree. Anthropic have a unique approach to how they post-train their models and tune it to be the way they want it. No other lab has managed to reproduce the style and personality of Claude yet, which is currently a key reason why coders prefer it. And since post-training data is secret, it'll take other providers a lot of focused effort to get close to that.
All it takes is some large companies commoditizing their complements. For Linux it was Google, etc. For AI it's Meta and China.
The only thing keeping Anthropic in business is geopolitics. If China were allowed full access to GPUs, they would probably die.