It was a pull request and a blog post which HN et al. collectively foamed at the mouth about. You’re acting like Anthropic sunk millions into a marketing campaign.
For what we know, probably around $200,000 to run the rewrite and rewiew it, + whatever was involved in writing the blog post and advertise it.
Well if the whole thing is a marketing ploy and it did cost them millions...
The entire country is watching companies like Anthropic, openAi, etc.. right now... A pull request and blog post is a big deal.