[baron816]

> Start with monopolies: tech companies are gigantic and they don’t compete, they just take over whole sectors, either on their own or in cartels.

>Google and Meta control the ad market. Google and Apple control the mobile market,

“Tech companies are monopolies”, proceeds to describe how tech companies compete with each other.

[hippo22]

A market with only two players isn't much of a market.

[ares623]

Or nowadays, any number of players.

Now that market data is made available by brokers and decisions can be colluded based on such data.

[NitpickLawyer]

TBF on the LLM side we currently have 4 big players, and a bunch of smaller ones. Plus a healthy bunch of open models, lagging ~1y behind SotA. The best thing for us consumers is that it stays this way. Any of them winning would be bad in general.

[hamdingers]

> or in cartels