The Last Company | Altra
>“We have no idea how we one day may generate revenue… [but] once we build this generally intelligent system, we will ask it for a way” - Sam Altman Fron...
The Last Company – Altra The Last Company 11 May, 2026 “We have no idea how we one day may generate revenue… [but] once we build this generally intelligent system, we will ask it for a way” - Sam Altman Frontier labs will build, gatekeep, and exploit 3-5x Mythos-level models to disrupt nearly every industry with substantial knowledge work expenditures. Anthropic crushed a $30B run rate this year servicing codegen. But is the real end goal to just replace software developers with Claude Code? We are dramatically underestimating the scale and danger of frontier lab ambition. They’re planning an
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