Both Anthropic and OpenAI will attempt to go public within the next nine months (by end of 2026).
“You're making me realize that between this being the year that Anthropic and OpenAI both try to go public, this is a midterm election year, this is, clearly a year of huge military unrest around the world, all of this is about to come to a head in a bunch of really messy, really public, really complicated like, the next nine months in this space are going to be truly, truly insane”
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