Comment by SpicyLemonZest

1 day ago

I agree! The concerns must have been very serious indeed to overcome Amazon's strong incentives to not bring them up and let Anthropic keep pulling in the revenue from their new frontier model.

Or they're trying to hype up an investment...

  • That doesn't really make sense. If Amazon wanted to build hype, wouldn't they have talked publicly about this? What's the point of working hard on a hype strategy and then delivering it only in private to government officials?

Begs the question why they didn’t present that info to Anthropic directly and if they did why they didn’t act

That's one potential interpretation. There are many others.

Hyping an investment, as mentioned.

If they have continued access, being able to use the tool when others cannot to get ahead.

Amazon's incentives are not so clear or simple as your first interpretation. It's important to think about these things beyond a moment's glance. With practice you will improve!