“I think the answer is probably somewhere in the middle — OpenAI needed this money, needed to feel competitive with Anthropic, and realized that it should raise as much money as possible before the capital markets slam shut.”
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He thinks the answer is probably somewhere in the middle: OpenAI needed this money, needed to feel competitive with Anthropic, and realized it should raise as much money as possible before the capital markets slam shut.
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Where's Your Ed At, Running Dry, paragraph 14.
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: Where's Your Ed At, Running Dry
I think the answer is probably somewhere in the middle — OpenAI needed this money, needed to feel competitive with Anthropic, and realized that it should raise as much money as possible before the capital markets slam shut.
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- paragraph 14
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- 2026-11-03
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