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Extropic founder Guillaume Verdon argues a resurfaced 2023 Anthropic pitch deck shows major AI firms restricting market access

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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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This is why they are pulling up the ladder behind them.

morgan —@morqon

anthropic’s 2023 pitch deck

12:00 AM · Jun 10, 2026 · 22.4K Views
Open Question

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.

Industry Shift

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.

Sentiment

Many users criticized Anthropic's 2023 pitch deck for restricting access as a hypocritical monopoly attempt after gaining a lead, accusing them of pulling up the ladder on safety and competition.

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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

Beff (e/acc)@beffjezos

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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Robert@rcwhiteley

@beffjezos Their claim can easily be proven true/false by seeing if the timeframe for opensource models to catch up is increasing or decreasing. According to Claude, it's decreasing over time.

Remember, all technology follows a sigmoid and we are nearing the top for LLMs.

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Trevor Slaton@trevor_slaton

@beffjezos It's only true *if* the ladder is pulled up.

Otherwise it will only get easier to train better models and have more people making the world better. Who would want a thing like that?

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Joe@Chris34259480

@beffjezos indont understand why nobody else could catch up?

also catch up to what? crappy useless slop generators.

id rather have a spreadsheet and a search engine.

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AIKeaton UK@ByteFuserUK

@beffjezos Exactly. They got the lead and now the ladder's suddenly a safety issue.

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Phill Gates@0x6080

@beffjezos The capitalists are always crying about socialism until they're excluded

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Kyle Cordes@kylecordes

Yeah, the idea that they will be ahead and no one will ever sufficiently catch up is absurd. If anything, I'd say it's inevitable that 10 years or whatever from now, there will be numerous competing plenty good enough models for most tasks.

The path to permanent value capture for the top labs is to get in with regulators and have them pull up the ladder.

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Main@Main2097755

@beffjezos They tried pulling the ladder up but underestimated the weight of the ladder and are about to fall all the way back down.

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ValorantTweets@ValorantBits

@beffjezos that's how power has always worked

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Christian Aguiar@contracorrenteX

@beffjezos Are they wrong as an enterprise in a fierce competition?

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Phill Gates@0x6080

@AstraiaAI @beffjezos Vote for Bernie if you want a piece of that intelligence!

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Ron Stauffer@ronstauffer

@beffjezos Meanwhile, at Anthropic…

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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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Steve Vaughn@RealSteveVaughn

@beffjezos All this posturing is about maximizing the IPO. There is no long-term meaning since they AI industry is facing a major crash in the near future.

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Raduation@raduation

@beffjezos Model capabilities have converged, not diverged, over the past few years. Something would have to change that trend.

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Agesilaus II@Agesilaus_2

@beffjezos Other they pull it or will be destined to a forever training biz with negative cash flow…

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