{"id":702077,"date":"2026-07-20T19:34:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-20T19:34:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/702077\/"},"modified":"2026-07-20T19:34:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-20T19:34:08","slug":"opinion-open-model-ai-is-good-competition-for-anthropic-and-openai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/702077\/","title":{"rendered":"Opinion | Open-model AI is good competition for Anthropic and OpenAI"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-apitype=\"text\" data-contentid=\"K42YJ5I32ZDRNH3MQ24QLVNDJ4\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-heFNVF wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\">Bill Gurley is the president and founder of the P3 Institute, and a former venture capitalist.<\/p>\n<p data-apitype=\"text\" data-contentid=\"NOK2BNLBTRAELGUACKREMWJRDM\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-heFNVF wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\">Two of the most valuable companies in American artificial intelligence, Anthropic and OpenAI, are preparing to go public at valuations <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/business\/markets\/openai-chatgpt-files-ipo-rcna349101\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">near $1 trillion<\/a> \u2014 valuations that rest on the promise of extraordinary profit margins. The fastest-growing challenge to those margins is not another well-funded AI lab. It is a wave of powerful AI models being given away for free. The newest of them was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/china\/chinas-moonshot-unveils-worlds-largest-open-ai-model-closing-us-rivals-2026-07-17\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">released in China just last week<\/a>. Lobbyists are urging Washington to treat open-model AI as a security threat. In fact, it is something more familiar: proper competition that should be welcomed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Bill Gurley is the president and founder of the P3 Institute, and a former venture capitalist. Two of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":702078,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[554,733,4308,86,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-702077","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-ai","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-technology","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/702077","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=702077"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/702077\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/702078"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=702077"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=702077"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=702077"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}