Surprised not to really see any comments on the financial incentives of this move, especially in the context of the “supply chain risk” classification earlier this year.
Is there no one in government who would stand to gain from a financially handicapped Anthropic in the context of an OpenAI IPO?
I moved to Sweden a little over 5 years ago for work after literally making a spreadsheet comparing potential countries.
Sweden wasn't at the top of the list (not even close), but I landed on it because the tech ecosystem seemed unusually strong and because I could secure my (and my family's) place in society (via citizenship) reasonably quickly and predictably, especially compared to other European countries.
Fast forward to today: my partner no longer qualifies. I have an application in, but the government is pushing forward reforms that will see it rejected, just because they plan to apply new rules on all existing applicants (and because I'm stuck in a 3+ year queue).
Turns out I forgot to account for policy stability in my modeling.
How'd you make your decision to move abroad, and has it worked out the way you thought?
I left the US, not because I was worried about healthcare for myself or my family, but because of how I felt it reflected on me that I was fine choosing to stay and cash a large check every month while others around me had to worry about healthcare.
I recently learned (by trial and error) some of the headaches associated with running headless browsers at scale that Joel mentions here; wish I'd heard of this service earlier. I ended up finding other solutions to fill in the gaps: Puppeteer Cluster is one I'd recommend (https://github.com/thomasdondorf/puppeteer-cluster)
I especially like the "host it yourself" commercial license model, here; while automating browser _actions_ over a network works well enough, _detailed scraping_ over a network can quickly become inefficient (as many requests for elements or element attributes may incur individual round-trips). In some cases, colocating your browser instance with your scraping logic becomes a necessity.
Is there no one in government who would stand to gain from a financially handicapped Anthropic in the context of an OpenAI IPO?