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Anthropic can remove all access to their LLMs and start replicating entire software companies. Anyone relying on open weight models is at risk of a security breach from even slightly better models. It is ironic when people think Anthropic is the one without moat while they give all their data away.

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There's a stock market truism that anyone that has real alpha doesn't sell it or give it away. I feel like there's an analogue here, that if it was just that easy for them to pack up their toys and go conquer the world, I can't imagine they would have been in the business of selling tokens at this point

IMO if llms keep improving, there's just not going to be a business in most of software anymore. It wouldn't matter if Anthropic tried to replicate all the saas companies because the category is soon to be dead. Why would you pay for someone else's software when you can prompt your own to your tastes? Every bit of software would just have one user

The end goal for Anthropic is AGI not beating Adobe. Having your models used at scale and receiving feedback and training data is valuable towards that goal.

> Anthropic can remove all access to their LLMs and start replicating entire software companies.

"I have a girlfriend for real she just goes to a different school"

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