I doubt they would go public if anthropic does and it’s a slaughter. Allowing anthropic to go first might be in their best interest.

Edit the config of the AI startups you have properly designed to be platform agnostic and make it use the other platforms models, wait the CI green and deploy prod

Probably a cambrian explosion of new startups. New stars are made of the refuse of old ones.

Could we end up with a merger between them and Anthropic?

your data get's sold

Stock market might dip 20%+, because OpenAI is a large buyer of GPUs, RAMs, servers and disks, every chip company will be impacted from removing huge customer from their revenue.

then flywheel effect might kick off and impact carriers and construction companies building data centers and delivering things there.

which impacts investor trust and they might start pulling their money from AI companies, which in turn, they either need to increase prices or downsize their efforts

What happens if people realize Ed Zitron been rage farming to harvest subscription dollars for a few years now?

Zitron is far more negative about the usefulness of LLMs than I am, but dear God would it be satisfying to watch him be proven right on the financials.

His as-of-late frequent appearances on Bloomberg, CNBC, and Scott Galloway's podcast, as well as his collaborations with Ed Elson from Galloway's podcast must feel like a great vindication for him already. Quite impressive for a person who is self-taught in that area, just over the past two years.