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Google DeepMind

Demis Hassabis · 2010

Google DeepMind is a research lab, not a business. Its value lies in its ability to produce peer-recognised scientific milestones — not revenue, not IP licensing, not product deployment. It proves that one company can fund high-risk, long-horizon AI research at industrial scale — but only by insulating it entirely from market logic.

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Anthropic

Dario Amodei & Daniela Amodei · 2021

Anthropic positions itself as a safety-first AI builder—but its business runs on proprietary models trained with legally contested data, sold under restrictive partnerships, and governed by self-declared public benefit terms that do not prevent mass-scale book scanning or billion-dollar copyright liability.

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