Chamath Urges Costly AI Firms to Crush Cheap Rivals
The venture capitalist posted a tweet calling for high-cost AI firms to eliminate cheaper competitors.
Chamath Palihapitiya wrote that if he led the expensive AI company he would destroy every rival on the low-cost side. He argued this would let the winner earn trillions and spend hundreds of billions to shape American politics as the sole arbiter of the future. A separate post highlighted his recent support for Chinese open-source models and criticism of Anthropic. The remarks reference a chart contrasting pricing and performance between the two groups of AI providers.
If I were the company on the right I would try to kill every company that is like the one on the left. This way, the company on the right can make trillions of dollars and then infect American politics with hundreds of billions of dollars to implement their vision of being the…
