alt Hacker NewsIf OpenAI and Anthropic eventually become public companies with trillion-dollar valuations, it will be interesting to see if their company ethos remains the same. With that much purchasing power, it's very tempting to gobble up competitors and raise prices.
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The question is not "if" they will lose their ethos but "how long will it take".
corporate pursuit of monopoly is as sure a phenomenon as gravity
I’m curious which will start producing hardware be it robotics, consumer or commercial devices, chips, energy infrastructure or transforming shipping crates into housing for jobless humans. Maybe even tanks of gel with arrays of humans in suspended animation reading our biometrics, thoughts, pumping in nutrients and training on the data. O_o
IPO won't lose their ethos. Competition out from their duopoly will.
> if their company ethos remains the same.
What? In what way would the change? They are already raising prices..
There is significant first-mover advantage for torching your ethos.
what is their company ethos? They are some of the most despicable tech companies in my opinion.
They already do both.
The real competition is coming out of China right now and I doubt the Chinese government is going to let them buy out their "fast follower" AI companies that are consistently 6-12 months behind in terms of quality. That said, I'm factoring quality as in Opus 4.5/Sonnet 4.5/GPT-5.5 as break points since I haven't really seen an improvement since that point when using AI.