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rbancroftyesterday at 12:51 AM1 replyview on HN

Listening to Dario at the NYT DealBook summit, and reading between the lines a bit, it seems like he is basically saying Anthropic is trying to be a reponsible, sustainable business and charging customers accordingly, and insinuating that OpenAI is being much more reckless, financially.


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nlyesterday at 2:27 AM

I think it's difficult to estimate how profitable both are - depends too much on usage and that varies so much.

I think it is widely accepted that Anthropic is doing very well in enterprise adoption of Claude Code.

In most of those cases that is paid via API key not by subscription so the business model works differently - it doesn't rely on low usage users subsidizing high usage users.

OTOH OpenAI is way ahead on consumer usage - which also includes Codex even if most consumers don't use it.

I don't think it matters - just make use of the best model at the best price. At the moment Codex 5.2 seems best at the mid-price range, while Opus seems slightly stronger than Codex Max (but too expensive to use for many things).