Ben Thompson with cutting commentary about Anthropic and Fable:

"What is so fascinating about Anthropic, however, is that while I am sure some executives at the company are thinking this way, I also totally believe that they — and the employee base broadly — also happen to believe that they are doing the right thing.

It's fascinating to observe: me, the rational business analyst, sees a hard-nosed but understandable business decision to cut off would-be competitors; Anthropic employees and advocates, the true believers, see a regrettable but understandable safety decision that ensures that responsible and thoughtful people — themselves, of course — will be the ones guiding our AGI future.

This is true alignment, and it's an incredible accomplishment.

I continue to think that part of what led to so much drama at OpenAI was the misalignment between what was a research organization and the tremendous opportunity that was dropped in their lap with the unexpected success of ChatGPT; that misalignment led to both the research organization losing talent and slowing down even as the company failed to fully capitalize on its early lead.

Anthropic, on the other hand, has somehow convinced itself that every decision that optimizes its business outcome is done purely for altruistic and culture-affirming reasons.

It's impressive!"

Kind of reminds me of Apple's strategy credit of privacy.