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Re:Anthropic acquires Stainless by bko on Monday May 18, 2026 @02:56PM (#48183953)
Why? They started the whole chatbot paradigm. They took the leap and are very generous with free tiers.

I know people are upset about the non-profit thing but the fact is that was pretty much the only way forward if they wanted to have LLMs have the impact that they are having today. It's very much a question if they'll ever turn a profit. But overall I'm grateful OpenAI had the vision to get this ball rolling when companies like Google have been sitting on this for nearly a decade and were too afraid to invest a tiny portion of their billions to bring this to fruition because they were afraid of either cannibalization of their search business or offending a vocal minority of internet people.

Re:Anthropic acquires Stainless by 650REDHAIR on Monday May 18, 2026 @03:42PM (#48184521)
Because Altman is an objectively bad person, mostly.
Re:Anthropic acquires Stainless by AlexCoventry on Monday May 18, 2026 @03:27PM (#48184317)
They jumped into a contract with Hegseth, after Hegseth made it abundantly clear through his negotiations with Anthropic that any counterparty of his would have to assist with domestic mass surveillance and unsupervised lethal autonomous weapons, or face severe penalties.
Re:Anthropic acquires Stainless by tpm on Monday May 18, 2026 @03:20PM (#48184211)
They support Trump.
Re:Anthropic acquires Stainless by Computer0 on Monday May 18, 2026 @05:02PM (#48185580)
They support the military industrial complex.
Re:Anthropic acquires Stainless by PunchTornado on Tuesday May 19, 2026 @02:58AM (#48190151)
1. scam altman

2. non profit then for profit

3. least open ai lab there. when is the last time you read something interesting from them

4. collaboration with the military after anthropic backed out

5. scam altman