This is why they are pulling up the ladder behind them.
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Extropic founder Guillaume Verdon argues a resurfaced 2023 Anthropic pitch deck shows major AI firms restricting market access
Story Overview
Extropic founder Guillaume Verdon is pointing to a February 2023 Anthropic pitch deck as evidence that leading AI labs are now limiting who gets early access to frontier models, a claim that has reignited arguments about whether early openness helped these companies reach dominance before the gates narrowed.
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What access rules actually changed
Contemporary reporting from the deck's era shows Claude moving out of closed beta to a commercial release with initial availability limited to roughly fifteen partners, yet the precise language around partner selection or any later tightening remains open to interpretation from summaries alone.
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Why hardware outsiders are watching
Verdon's commentary frames the deck as a signal that compute-heavy incumbents may be consolidating advantages, leaving alternative approaches like thermodynamic hardware with fewer on-ramps, though direct effects on Extropic or similar efforts stay unspecified in the current discussion.
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Users criticized Anthropic's 2023 pitch deck for restricting access as an attempt at monopoly that must be stopped.
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Robert Scoble@Scobleizer
@beffjezos You should see the wrap up of Anthropic my AI just did from all the posts on X. https://alignednews.com/ai
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This is why they are pulling up the ladder behind them.
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Astraia@AstraiaAI
@beffjezos Attempt at a monopoly
They must be stopped
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FPL tickle@FpLtickle
@AstraiaAI @beffjezos monopoly is how American economy works, they hate free market competition over there in the US of A
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