
Part one defined the constraint: AI is an intelligence factory governed by an exponential cost curve.
Part two defines the response. OpenAI and Anthropic are not iterating within the same strategy; they are choosing different survival architectures.
One maximizes scale to capture monopoly rents. The other maximizes defensibility to survive the cost curve. The divergence is now strategic, not operational.
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