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AI's Investor Overlap Reaches the Largest Labs

OpenAI and Anthropic share dozens of investors, a concrete example cited in reporting on venture capital's weakening convention against backing direct competitors. The overlap places the issue at the industry's largest AI laboratories rather than only among obscure portfolio neighbors. For the funding market, that illustrates how widely capital can spread across competing visions of the same technological future. For founders, it makes exclusive financial alignment harder to assume from an investor's enthusiasm alone. Everybody can be deeply convinced that your team will change the world. Some may also have funded an alternative world-changing team across the street.

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