I think people believe that OpenAI and Anthropic, since they are so good at AI, are also somehow not normal companies that suffer from the normal problems of hypergrowth, but they are not immune from the inevitable politics, disfunction and confusion that haunt fast-growing firms

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I think people believe that OpenAI and Anthropic, since they are so good at AI, are also somehow not normal companies that suffer from the normal problems of hypergrowth, but they are not immune from the inevitable politics, disfunction and confusion that haunt fast-growing firms

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Ethan Mollick argued that OpenAI and Anthropic remain vulnerable to the politics, dysfunction and confusion that affect fast-growing companies, despite their AI capabilities. He said people appear to assume that being good at AI somehow shields the two companies from ordinary organizational problems.

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