Sam Altman renews his ‘democratic AI’ pitch as Anthropic holds a harder line
THE SO WHAT
The split between ‘democratic AI’ rhetoric and a more restrictive stance is turning model access into a geopolitical and ethical choice, not just a pricing decision. When you pick a foundation model, you’re implicitly choosing a governance regime—legal, reputational, and market access risk should be in that RFP, not just latency and tokens.
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