OpenAI is Visa – Buttering up the government to retain a monopoly

Re:OpenAI is Visa – Buttering up the government to retain a ... by doctorpangloss on Thursday December 26, 2024 @05:07PM (#42518233)

All he’d have to do is get interest rates to rise 25bps and then poof, his competitors would evaporate.

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Re:OpenAI is Visa – Buttering up the government to retain a ... by derektank on Thursday December 26, 2024 @08:09PM (#42519165)

I think Google has deeper pockets than OAI. The only competition I can see getting priced out by higher interest rates is Anthropic

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Re:OpenAI is Visa – Buttering up the government to retain a ... by pixl97 on Thursday December 26, 2024 @05:14PM (#42518277)

Saying we should replicate the Russian economy then?

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Re:OpenAI is Visa – Buttering up the government to retain a ... by doctorpangloss on Thursday December 26, 2024 @07:25PM (#42518964)

I'm mocking the whole idea of this or that lobbying being done to crush a particular competitor, when tech companies are very much a Rising Tide Lifts All Boats business.

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Re:OpenAI is Visa – Buttering up the government to retain a ... by pixl97 on Thursday December 26, 2024 @07:44PM (#42519049)

Tech companies like Microsoft, one of the few ever convicted monopolists in the US

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Re:OpenAI is Visa – Buttering up the government to retain a ... by nottorp on Friday December 27, 2024 @02:09AM (#42520451)

They don't want to crush a particular competitor, they want to crush all competitors :)

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