… Companies like OpenAI and Anthropic have accused Chinese firms of distilling their models, with OpenAI publicly stating its concerns about DeepSeek, and Anthropic specifically naming DeepSeek, Moonshot, and MiniMax. …
… He also folded xAI into SpaceX, as he had planned to do with OpenAI and Tesla. OpenAI has responded to Musk by blogging. According to OpenAI, Musk himself wanted a for-profit arm of OpenAI — and further, 50 to 60 percent of its equity, and to be its CEO. He also proposed merging OpenAI with Tesla. …
… Meta raided OpenAI for talent; several key OpenAI players such as Ilya Sutskever, Bob McGrew, and Mira Murati went on to found their own companies. Anthropic, one of OpenAI’s biggest competitors, is also composed of former OpenAI talent. …
… OpenAI’s models, by comparison, appeared in more than 230 examples, while Google and Anthropic each appeared dozens of times. …
… Claude Code may have captured a lot of the software world’s imagination, but Anthropic’s competition hasn’t been far behind. OpenAI’s Codex, which launched in 2025 a few months after Claude Code, has gotten a series of updates and is also a powerful and popular tool for writing code. …
… OpenAI and Anthropic shifted their pricing plans for enterprise. OpenAI introduced in-platform advertisements. …
… Even before its fight with Anthropic began, several major AI labs had loosened their operating guidelines or tweaked their mission statements to allow for military deals — including Google, OpenAI, and arguably Anthropic itself. OpenAI quickly signed onto the terms Anthropic had spurned. …
… Correction May 12th: An earlier version of this story said an OpenAI hat read, “Still thinking.” It actually said “Thinking Deeply.”
… It certainly created more pressure on Sam and OpenAI. We published a story this week just about the vibes of OpenAI. Your story is part of it, but massive staffing changes in the executive ranks at OpenAI — people are coming and going. …
… The last time we talked to your model provider was OpenAI, I believe. Is that still the primary partner? We partner with OpenAI and Anthropic and then, of course, our own internal models. …