I think about what would be most terrifying to Anthropic and OpenAI i.e. The absolute scariest thing that Google could do. I think this is it: Release low latency, low priced models with high cognitive performance and big context window, especially in the coding space because that is direct, immediate, very high ROI for the customer.
Now, imagine for a moment they had also vertically integrated the hardware to do this.
"Now, imagine for a moment they had also vertically integrated the hardware to do this."
Then you realise you aren't imagining it.
> think about what would be most terrifying to Anthropic and OpenAI
The most terrifying thing would be Google expanding its free tiers.