Big tech's core AI bet has quietly shifted.
Winning the model race still matters but it's no longer the only game.
The real hedge: own the compute infrastructure.
Lose the model war? You still win because whoever builds AGI will need your datacenter to run it.
@thetreygoff This is why Anthropic has an ARR of $45B:
GPT is a professional camera. Claude is an iPhone.
The tool that breaks the entry barrier always wins the bigger market.
@AnthropicAI This Anthropic report feels like preparation for Mythos.
Notice the shift:
Not "the model is dangerous."
But "the danger comes from agentic scaffolding and deployment."
An important distinction when you're about to release a far more capable model.
Opus 4.7 was released on April 16, and OpenAI responded with GPT-5.5 just 1 week later (April 23).
Now, GPT-5.6 is maybe dropping tomorrow exactly 1 week after Opus 4.8.
Ironically, the two giants of the consumer and ads era, Google and Meta, may end up becoming enterprise companies.
The reason is simple: AI's ultimate objective is to absorb larger and larger parts of the economy, and economies are absorbed through businesses, not individuals.
Ironically, the two giants of the consumer and ads era, Google and Meta, may end up becoming enterprise companies.
The reason is simple: AI's ultimate objective is to absorb larger and larger parts of the economy, and economies are absorbed through businesses, not individuals.