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0 pointsmerelydev18d ago0 comments

I agree, generally competition is a good thing, but in this case I think we're having a divide and conquer scenario that works in Google's advantage.

We're seeing that compute and investment liquidity is effectively a zero-sum game and by having Google go after the excess compute and liquidity (which they don't really need) will most likely weaken the competitors to the point where they aren't competitive. But if OpenAI and Anthropic merge they can pool resources and be more competitive.

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brendoelfrendo18d ago· 2 in thread

This is a very persuasive argument that Google should have been broken up years ago.

bombcar18d ago

Google selling ads on their search to people using their browser and phone was way more anti-trustful than anything Microsoft ever did, tbh.

Especially when you consider that they bribe Apple and Firefox to funnel users to them, too.

SR2Z16d ago

To be fair the fact that Google overcame not being the default browser is incredibly impressive. It's easy to forget now just how dark the days of IE6 were.

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