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This only works if you are the only one selling the machined aspirin. Or you build a cartel of apirin sellers to do some price fixing.

> Or you build a cartel of apirin sellers to do some price fixing.

They are really trying to do that by getting that regulatory capture

And by buying all of the available compute.

That doesn't appear to be the only thing necessary. Grok is still much worse than other closed source models, despite access to more compute.

Conversely, DeepSeek are relatively compute starved and produce a usable model (definitely not frontier but 10x cheaper).