There’s no business in tokens. Zero. The only business is selling compute and Anthropic rented all its compute.
Structurally they’re in a terrible position on what’s unfolding now with the completely collapse of model valuations. With truly “open” models gaining more and more momentum models are basically worth nothing and “token” prices are collapsing to the cost of compute. That doesn’t leave anything on the table for the Anthropic and Open AI’s of the world.
but Opus 5.5 is the best product ever made in the history of the world (yes I'm serious). There's gotta be some consideration for that.
openai has a billion users. Ads and they know it.