The rules change when you become top dog

M.G. Siegler: What if Anthropic is Right?

Certainly part of it is just the shift from underdog to presumed leader in AI. But a lot of it has to do with the way Anthropic carries itself as a company. Whereas the strong stances and rhetoric were once seen as almost endearing, now they're seen more as a problem.

As we’ve seen with Apple, a company’s eccentricities and bold stances are endearing when they’re an underdog, but not as much when they’re on top.