Yes, and there is a case to be made that OpenAI and Anthropic will do the best job of figuring out how to optimize AI cost/intelligence with combinations of agents of different ability levels that have been specifically trained to work well together in their own harnesses.
Mollick says OpenAI and Anthropic may best optimize AI cost and intelligence
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Ethan Mollick argues that OpenAI and Anthropic may do the best job of optimizing the cost-intelligence tradeoff by combining agents of different ability levels. He says these agents would be trained to work well together within each company's own harness. The post responds to Azeem's point that the two companies compete at the cheap end of the market, not just the frontier.
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OpenAI and Anthropic compete at the cheap end of the market, not just at the frontier.
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