The only reality in which Anthropic will take on OpenAI (et. al.), would be if someone involved possess some sacred knowledge regarding how to build an AGI system that is radically off the path that the current market is charging down (i.e. ever-larger GPU farms and transformer-style models).
I suspect this is not the case. The same hustlers who brought you crypto scams didn't just disappear into the ether. All of that energy has to eventually go somewhere.
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