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The Anthropic access fight adds the harder question: what happens when a model disappears, rate-limits you, or gets pulled into geopolitics?"]}),e.jsxs("p",{children:[e.jsx("strong",{children:"Jeff's angle:"})," The grown-up AI stack is not the one with the fanciest demo. It is the one that lets you keep shipping when one provider breaks, one model gets weird, or one company decides your use case is not allowed this week."]}),e.jsxs("p",{children:[e.jsx("strong",{children:"Format:"})," X thread. 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