Comment by weird-eye-issue
3 days ago
Requiring the exact same product to be set at a specific price across providers would not be criminal behavior, lol
3 days ago
Requiring the exact same product to be set at a specific price across providers would not be criminal behavior, lol
It is breaking competition.
Would you like all products everywhere be priced like their producers want?
You seem terribly confused. Manufacturers are almost always able to set prices. That is not anti-competitive because it does not imply they are colluding with their competition...
A fixed price does not let stores compete with each other. Blocking competition is anticompetitive.
The competition is between openai and anthropic, if there are price agreements between them that's absolutely price fixing. Or if there's collusion between the cloud providers to inflate compute. I would expect Amazon and gcp to both pay about the same in license fees to anthropic for their models though because they're paying for the same thing. If I buy an apple for a dollar at one store and an apple for a dollar at another store - maybe there's price fixing, or maybe that's just the cost of apples at the moment.
>The competition is between openai and anthropic
In capitalism there are many many competitions going on at the same time. Both models can compete and inference providers can compete for costs.
In your apple example if at the same stores you saw "open" apples having different prices and having sales you might question if the costs of those frontier apples are not being manipulated.
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