Khan’s Parallel Universe; Uber Is Minting Money
Lina Khan is out of the government, but she hasn’t given up her crusade against big tech. The former Federal Trade Commission chair has written an opinion piece for The New York Times suggesting the success of China’s artificial intelligence firm DeepSeek is a sign that “there isn’t enough competition” in the tech industry.
Perhaps Lina Khan is living on a different planet. In the U.S., aside from ChatGPT parent OpenAI, Elon Musk’s xAI, Anthropic, Meta Platforms, Google and Amazon have each developed their own large language models. Other startups in the field include Ilya Sutskever’s Safe Superintelligence. You can argue there is too much money flowing into AI—but it’s hard to credibly argue there isn’t enough competition. (Perhaps Khan should take out a subscription to The Information’s AI Agenda to become better informed!)
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