Opinion2 min read
Inside the Schism: Anthropic Reportedly Views OpenAI as AI's 'Tobacco Industry'
Leaked internal framing reveals that Anthropic's founding team views OpenAI's commercialization-first culture as analogous to Big Tobacco — an industry that knew its product caused harm and kept selling it anyway. The framing illuminates why Anthropic's public policy stances have been so systematically at odds with every other major AI lab.