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Amodei: Frontier AI oligopoly will not equilibrate to zero margins
“If there's like three firms, if there's three firms in the economy, all are kind of independently behaving, behaving rationally, it doesn't equilibrate to zero.”
Dario Amodei Feb 18, 2026 ▶ 8:15 The Cournot Equation, Micron’s $200B Bet, Hollywood vs. Seedance 2.0 | Diet TBPN
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Amodei: Deployed AI models are profitable, but labs lose money scaling training
“Each model makes money, but the company loses money.”
Dario Amodei Feb 18, 2026 ▶ 9:33 The Cournot Equation, Micron’s $200B Bet, Hollywood vs. Seedance 2.0 | Diet TBPN
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Amodei: AI market with three rational firms will not collapse to zero margins
“The point is it doesn't equilibrate to perfect competition with zero margins. If there's like three firms, if there's three firms in the economy, All are kind of independently behaving, behaving rationally. It doesn't equilibrate to zero.”
Dario Amodei Feb 18, 2026 ▶ 16:00 The Secret Economics Controlling OpenAI, Anthropic, and the AI Boom
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Amodei: AI models make money individually while companies lose money scaling
“Each model makes money, but the company loses money.”
Dario Amodei Feb 18, 2026 ▶ 17:30 The Secret Economics Controlling OpenAI, Anthropic, and the AI Boom
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