Huh? Their power is precisely in the users they have.
Let’s say they build a godlike superintelligence. Now they ban all their users. Let’s further assume that they are fine with all their users rotting and dying (easy to believe). Now what exactly is Anthropic going to do in that world? Invent Millennium Problems and solve them?
That's not what Anthropic wants. They plan to be The Company. The only one. The one that does everything and makes every decision.
Govern it. Every ones end up delegating decision to it, because it will better informed, and anyone using can it out-compete you.
My prediction is once they reach this ceiling (or find a better RL environment), they will cancel free plans and shift towards the next scaling laws challenge (robotics, etc) by buying out whoever started early and repeating the playbook.
Canceling the paid plans would only make sense if they solve for control, which right now isn't yet clear who has it and in what capacity.
False. There is a brilliant quote from The Blacklist series: "every information is worth something to someone". Their strength comes from the fact that they convinced everyone to willingly let user-facing computers collect data, write and execute arbitrary code on people's computers with a simple "trust me bro". In other words they have near complete monopoly over the world's infrastructure.
Dario already said it according to multiple sources: he believes Anthropic will be the last surviving company in the world, where all the value will accumulate
Elon Musk has another vision: his AI is going to build the Dyson swarm around the Sun. Money doesn't matter in that world, only how many robots you have, and how much mass you can put into orbit.
Given that LLMs are practically commodities and open models are a dime a dozen, this is pure insanity. There's no way there from here.
That doesn't mean there's any actual mechanism for me to do so.
What you're talking about requires a genuine breakthrough in AI research, not just iterative improvements on what we've already got. By their very nature, those are not something that can be predicted or relied upon; you cannot even be guaranteed that a given type of breakthrough will ever happen.