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Re:Anthropic IPO by arbll on Thursday November 12, 2026 @11:26AM (#50469953)
You're focusing too much on the technical lock-in. They are providing:

- A stable and reliable platform you can build your prod on

- "Unlimited" capacity (something impossible today with the amount of GPUs available outside of labs)

- ZDR that is trusted by companies vs a random provider on OpenRouter

- Central governance

- E2E integration in their CLIs/Web clients/Desktop Client/etc...

Re:Anthropic IPO by metalspot on Thursday November 12, 2026 @12:20PM (#50470780)
> ZDR that is trusted by companies

Nobody trusts Anthropic's ZDR, in the limited cases where they even offer it. The key thing is that weight activation sequences from a query are not "customer data" they are internal Anthropic data. So in Anthropic's legal theory they are training on their own internal data, not "customer data," and that is perfectly legal, even though it is the exact same thing in practice as training directly on customer data.