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You're basically saying that partnership and exclusivity contracts should be illegal. The business world as we know it would cease to function.

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'Partnership' is another word for collusion, but that is indeed the slippery slope I see here. There's a fine line somewhere and I'm not sure multi-billion dollars of dependency-creating deals are on the right side it.

Besides, partnership implies equality, which, again, I'm not seeing here.

So the alternative would be that AWS created its own Anthropic equivalent and that Anthropic bought its own servers?

Collusion has a very specific legal definition.

If Amazon and Microsoft agreed not to compete in each others cloud market or decided not to compete on price, that would be “collusion”

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