July 17, 2026

Chamath Palihapitiya Says Meta and Elon Musk Could End the '$50 Barrel of Intelligence' Era, Challenging Rivals OpenAI and Anthropic

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Venture capitalist Chamath Palihapitiya warns that the steep premiums charged by leading artificial intelligence (AI) developers like OpenAI and Anthropic are on a collision course with drastically cheaper models from tech giants like Meta Platforms...