Anthropic’s recent shutdown of access to some of its newest models got me thinking about a larger issue.
Many businesses are building critical workflows around a single AI provider. Whether the risk comes from government action, outages, pricing changes, policy changes, or model deprecations, the result is the same: a dependency that the customer doesn’t control.
AI can be incredibly useful, but relying on a single provider, or worse, becoming unable to operate without AI at all, seems like a business continuity risk that doesn’t get discussed enough.
Many businesses are building critical workflows around a single AI provider. Whether the risk comes from government action, outages, pricing changes, policy changes, or model deprecations, the result is the same: a dependency that the customer doesn’t control.
AI can be incredibly useful, but relying on a single provider, or worse, becoming unable to operate without AI at all, seems like a business continuity risk that doesn’t get discussed enough.
Curious how others are thinking about this.