AI coding agents are turning into a real business for OpenAI and Anthropic

OpenAI and Anthropic appear to have crossed a critical threshold: their AI coding agents are generating substantial revenue, and both companies have quietly restructured their pricing to capture it. Simon Willison writes for his weblog that the two leading AI labs have found product-market fit, driven by a shift toward enterprise customers paying full API …

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Anthropic files IPO prospectus with SEC, beating OpenAI to the punch

Anthropic has confidentially submitted a draft registration statement on Form S-1 to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, the company announced on Monday. The filing gives Anthropic the option to pursue an initial public offering once the SEC completes its review. The move puts Anthropic ahead of rival OpenAI, which has not yet filed its …

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Anthropic surpasses OpenAI with $965 billion valuation after $65 billion funding round

Anthropic has raised $65 billion in a Series H funding round, pushing its post-money valuation to $965 billion. The San Francisco company has now surpassed OpenAI as the world’s most valuable artificial intelligence startup. OpenAI’s last valuation stood at $730 billion. The round was led by Altimeter Capital, Dragoneer, Greenoaks, and Sequoia Capital. A broad …

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Claude for content professionals: models, features, prices explained

Claude is the best AI for writing. This has been true since its humble beginnings in 2023. I’ve used Claude as soon as it was available and felt the difference immediately. I would have loved to pay for it, but there was no paid plan in the first few months. When Anthropic added Claude Pro …

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Opus 4.8: Anthropic’s new AI model is better, cheaper, and more honest

Anthropic has released Claude Opus 4.8, a new version of its most advanced publicly available AI model. The update arrives just 41 days after its predecessor, Opus 4.7, and brings measurable improvements in coding performance, agentic tasks, and — notably — honesty. The model is available immediately at the same price as before. Standard pricing …

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Andrej Karpathy joins Anthropic’s pretraining team

Andrej Karpathy, a founding member of OpenAI and former head of AI at Tesla, is joining Anthropic. Karpathy announced the move on X (formerly Twitter), writing that he is “very excited to join the team here and get back to R&D.” At Anthropic, Karpathy will join the pretraining team, which handles the large-scale training runs …

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Anthropic is now worth more than OpenAI and it happened in just three months

Anthropic has agreed terms on a new $30bn funding round that values the artificial intelligence company at $900bn, surpassing rival OpenAI’s current valuation of $852bn. The Financial Times reports that investment firms Dragoneer, Greenoaks, Sequoia Capital and Altimeter Capital will co-lead the round, with each likely contributing $2bn or more. The deal is expected to …

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Anthropic launches Claude for Small Business with tool integrations and free training

Anthropic has launched Claude for Small Business, a package of software integrations and ready-made workflows supposed to bring its AI assistant into the daily operations of small and mid-sized companies. The product runs inside Claude Cowork, Anthropic’s task-automation platform, and connects to tools many small businesses might already use. The launch includes integrations with Intuit …

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Anthropic partners with Elon Musk’s SpaceX to solve its AI capacity crisis

Anthropic has signed an agreement with SpaceX to use the full compute capacity of Colossus 1, a data center in the United States. The deal gives Anthropic access to more than 300 megawatts of capacity, backed by over 220,000 Nvidia GPUs, within the month. Anthropic head of product Ami Vora announced the partnership at the …

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Anthropic connects Claude to Adobe, Blender, and other creative tools

Anthropic has released a set of connectors that link its AI assistant Claude to software used widely in creative industries. The integrations cover tools for visual design, 3D modeling, music production, and video work. Partners include Adobe, Blender, Ableton, Autodesk, Affinity by Canva, Splice, SketchUp, and Resolume. Connectors are tools that allow Claude to access …

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