[regularfry]

> While this is absolutely true, it's extremely unlikely that a de jure monopoly would end up at OpenAI's feet rather than any of the FAANGs'

Possibly. The Microsoft tie-up complicates things a bit from that point of view. It wouldn't shock me if we were all using Azure GPT-5 in a few years' time.

[ben_w]

It's possible, I don't put much weight on it given all the anti-trust actions past and present, but it's possible.