@Suhail: As intelligence commoditizes, they will launch products in every app layer category to improve their margins. They are …
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Suhail comments that as AI intelligence commoditizes, Anthropic will launch products across app layers to improve margins, while Beff claims Anthropic limited Fable for biology and ML not for safety but to dominate those markets.
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As intelligence commoditizes, they will launch products in every app layer category to improve their margins. They are not classic neutral platform api providers.
Watching how users use your products, prompts, etc are invaluable data to compete w you!
Beff (e/acc) (@beffjezos): So the real reasons that Anthropic nerfed Fable for biology and ML weren’t for “Safety” but because those are markets they wanted to dominate.
Got it.
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