Anthropic and OpenAI look to Uncle Sam to make them too big to fail
The headlines wrote themselves and the seed took root.But it's not humanity that faces the biggest threat – at least not yet. Rather, it's American model-making giants Anthropic and OpenAI, which, despite hundreds of billions in investment, are years from profitability and entirely dependent on a steady supply of capital. Meanwhile, Chinese open-weight models are improving rapidly to the point where some outperform the big frontier models that sparked the generative AI boom, while using a lot fewer resources.
- ▪The headlines wrote themselves and the seed took root.But it's not humanity that faces the biggest threat – at least not yet.
- ▪Rather, it's American model-making giants Anthropic and OpenAI, which, despite hundreds of billions in investment, are years from profitability and entirely dependent on a steady supply of capital.
- ▪Meanwhile, Chinese open-weight models are improving rapidly to the point where some outperform the big frontier models that sparked the generative AI boom, while using a lot fewer resources.
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| Publication time | Tue, 15 Sep 2026 15:00:00 +0200 |
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(function() { let windowUrl = window.location.href; windowUrl = windowUrl.substring(windowUrl.indexOf('?') + 1); let messageElement = document.querySelector('.shareableMessage'); if (windowUrl && windowUrl.includes('code') && windowUrl.includes('expires')) { messageElement.style.display = 'block'; } })(); AI AND ML Anthropic and OpenAI look to Uncle Sam to make them too big to fail American model devs are trying to convince Washington to cement their dominance Tobias Mann Tobias Mann SYSTEMS EDITOR Published tue 15 Sep 2026 // 14:00 UTC READ MORE The latest AI doomsayer is China’s intelligence boss 8 hours ago OpenAI's malicious bot swarm attacked RubyGems 18 hours ago Datacenter developers want your backyard.
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