The Anti-Trust act makes it illegal for business to conspire to restrict markets.

Anthropic is engaging in some product engineering to level set their offerings against each other.

I'm not sure I am understanding the connection you are trying to make.

The implication of the comment is that Anthropic is limiting the capabilities of their external models to prevent other companies from building models that can compete with Claude, and that this constitutes anticompetitive behavior under the law.

	▲	legitster 3 hours ago \| parent [-]
		> Anthropic is limiting the capabilities of their external models to prevent other companies from building models that can compete with Claude. Uhhhh... that seems like quite a logical leap. "The only reason Apple doesn't release a faster phone is so other companies can't copy it." Antitrust generally does not compel companies to make product lineup decisions, especially if the industry itself is acting quite competitively.

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nullc 8 minutes ago | parent | prev [-]

Anthropic's "Pace the frontier" is a facially unlawful conspiracy to restrict markets. Imposing these restrictions in their product offerings is an overt act that they're taking to facilitate their unlawful market rigging conspiracy.

There is no legitimate purpose to restrict the ability to optimize accelerator kernels except to inhibit competition in this space-- it is the most benign and harmless act imaginable. There is at least some debate to be had about things like computer-security capabilities, but nothing is being damaged by AI inference being made 10% faster except the ability of market leaders to extract rents.