That is presumably the end game - monthly subscription in a walled garden app while they have your balls in a vice grip and can squeeze however many dollars you’ll bear

I bet Google is thankful that anthropic took one for the team by going first.

Also if it wasn’t for Chinese providers we’d basically already be in triopoly.

Perplexity had a ban wave this weekend too

▲

gmerc 5 hours ago | parent [-]

Presumably ...? It's the business model. Subsidize until the competition is down to 2, then extract. That's the entire Valley. Which is why the Chinese and Open Source need to be pushed from the market for the whole banana to work

	▲	gck1 3 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Yup. The entire business models of Google (or rather, Gemini), OpenAI and Anthropic stand on open source models not being as good. They're literally all just a single open source model away from effectively becoming trillion dollar paperweights.