That's what I am thinking, too. It sound's like a conspiracy theory, but at the end Anthropic et al benefits from models that don't finish their jobs. I recently read about this "over editing phenomenon". The machine is never done. It doesn't want to.

It's like dating apps. They don't want you to find a good match, because then you cancel the subscription.

Which works fine, right up until China releases a new DeepSeek model that's 85% as capable as an Anthropic or OpenAI premium model but costs a fraction of what either of those US companies are charging.

Speaking of which:

https://www.cnbc.com/2026/04/24/deepseek-v4-llm-preview-open...