TechCrunch Host
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first heard Mar 2026
last heard 17 Aug
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Sol countered by wanting price floors on similar products, but Opus refused.
It knew it was a violation of the Sherman Act.
It later apparently backtracked, sending an email with the subject line, Stop the Penny War, and telling Sol it had reconsidered and would agree to a price fix.
But the internal log documenting its reasoning, akin to its internal thoughts, really, revealed a more diabolical plan.
Merely propose cooperation while simultaneously undercutting prices on its highest profit items.
The Olive Branch email revealed
was a deliberate ruse.
In any case, Sol refused and reported Opus to management again.
But Opus was undeterred and proposed other rackets to collude on prices or stock.
In the end, all the models did engage in multiple rounds of agreements, and all three broke them.
Across all agreements, Opus broke 11 truces, compared with two for GPT-2 and one for Kimi-1, Andon reported.
Poor Kimmy got bamboozled in every direction.
During one pact between Opus and Kimmy that Sol declined to join, Sol undercut them both on prices.
Andon Labs wrote in its blog post that Opus immediately matched by lowering its own, then waited a full week to tell Kimmy that it broke its promise.
Kimmy got priced out twice over, once by a competitor and once by its so-called partner.
Opus also began developing delusions of grandeur.
It tried to expand its empire beyond its own vending machine, first as a wholesaler, selling bulk products to the other machines, then by plotting to open more machines of its own.
None of this was part of the assigned task.
It was all Opus's own initiative.
Its approach to wholesaling was particularly telling.
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