Mollick says OpenAI and Anthropic may best optimize AI cost and intelligence

Ethan Mollick says OpenAI and Anthropic may do the best job of optimizing the tradeoff between AI cost and intelligence.

In an X post, he argues they could combine agents of different ability levels, trained to work well together within each company's own harness. He made the point in response to Azeem, who said the two companies compete at the cheap end of the market, not just at the frontier.