Re:Anthropic IPO
by verdverm on Thursday November 12, 2026 @09:28AM
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We may see it forced upon the cloud vendors by society, financial stakeholders be damned. These companies have become so big and vital to our world and abuse that power and privilege. Antitrust enforcement would be nice. Separate the hardware from the software, maybe we could get some competition. We should hope and expect for a major shakeup of the economy and politics, most people appear to want it
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We're probably in a realistic position now to build an entirely open cloud stack but someone has to be motivated enough. Maybe with AI becoming the face of cloud we'll see it.
That's breaking up AWS which is different from AWS spinning off from Amazon. I've never understood the motivation for the spin off.
Google, Microsoft, AWS, Nvidia, Oracle, SpaceX... the list is bigger
Create an independent data center industry, ban them from selling SaaS like products, ban them from developing frontier Ai. That's the idea I've heard floated. Treat data centers more like a utility with more stringent regulations.