The headline is false. First off, OpenAI hasn’t raised a recent round so you can’t compare these two companies randomly like this. Second, Anthropic is known to have accounting methods that give it more revenue that they would have if they used the same practices as OpenAI. And neither of these companies are known to be doing gaap accounting.
Anthropic surpasses OpenAI to become most valuable AI startup
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Re: Anthropic surpasses OpenAI to become most valuable AI startup
#182I never want to hear from developers again that they are not susceptible to marketing. I see meet ups specifically about Claude often. Modern tupperware party. A colleague was convinced Claude is better so we played a game. We used the claude code and codex harness and I implemented some prs they needed with gpt5.5 and opus4.7 and asked them to identify which came from which only from the code. Couldn’t tell. Edit: i…
The results are the same but I’ve found the process to get to the results are just more pleasant with Claude. I can’t put my finger on it. Overall most these models at the highest level are about the same in many respects but the UI/UX for some are just more enjoyable, for lack of a better term.
Codex I feel the need to be very specific and precise with. Claude… I feel like I can be lazy, which I enjoy.
Both still need to be reviewed stringently but I feel I can be more ambiguous with Claude and get better results than when Codex.
Re: Anthropic surpasses OpenAI to become most valuable AI startup
#183I never want to hear from developers again that they are not susceptible to marketing. I see meet ups specifically about Claude often. Modern tupperware party. A colleague was convinced Claude is better so we played a game. We used the claude code and codex harness and I implemented some prs they needed with gpt5.5 and opus4.7 and asked them to identify which came from which only from the code. Couldn’t tell. Edit: i…
It's crazy hearing devs on this site claim Claude is 10x better than all other AI solutions. I think it is fomo. Claude $LATEST_VERSION is perceived as the best and anything else is "missing out". New version comes out? Suddenly the old version is worthless, how on earth did anyone get work done with that? Same reason people buy the RTX 4090 and 5090 cards - overpriced but they must have the "best". Never mind the di…
> Same reason people buy the RTX 4090 and 5090 cards - overpriced but they must have the "best".
Or they need to run high VRAM apps like LLMs
Or they have 4K monitors and want smooth gameplay on them
Is this whole thread just dedicated to snark about other people’s personal preferences?
Re: Anthropic surpasses OpenAI to become most valuable AI startup
#184They are far far better at marketing than OpenAI
They just have no moral issues with spamming the internet with bots. They utilize blackhat tactics whenever they can to get an upper hand. Every social media platform is absolutely choc full of Anthropic and Claude promoting bots, and you know they're bots because they all repeat the same things, in the same wording. X in particular seems to have millions of them.
Re: Anthropic surpasses OpenAI to become most valuable AI startup
#185Some says the founder worked at Baidu before. Is that true?
Re: Anthropic surpasses OpenAI to become most valuable AI startup
#186Earlier quoted context omitted.
You're overestimating the extent to which individual developers have a choice here. My employer signed up for a Claude Code membership, I use Claude Code. I cannot use Codex. Anecdotally I hear of folks with workplace Claude Code subscriptions all the time. I'm not sure I've ever heard someone talk about their workplace Codex subscription. Anthropic clearly did a far better job chasing corporate customers while OpenA…
The OP seems unaware that Claude had a lead in this space and captured market share and attention for that reason alone. The test they (supposedly) ran with their coworkers to look at PRs from both is such a bad way to compare LLMs that I don’t think they’re very experienced with using them.
> The OP seems unaware that Claude had a lead in this space
I remember using GitHub Copilot (OpenAI "Codex" mk1) in Aug 2021 (ChatGPT would launch a year later 2 weeks after Meta's botched Galactica release). Cursor & others took it and ran a mighty good race.
Re: Anthropic surpasses OpenAI to become most valuable AI startup
#187OpenAI’s models could be materially better than Anthropic’s and I still wouldn’t use them because I don’t want to support Altman.
Do you hold any amount of power in the world? A project that people care about, or a deliverable that someone depends on? Just curious how you can afford to care about the guy 7 levels above the men that built and support the API that you buy.
why would you spend even a fraction of a second defending him
Re: Anthropic surpasses OpenAI to become most valuable AI startup
#188In this game, who wins - in the long term - is who has the best model: so far OpenAI is ahead, so in the long term this is what matters. However, for the same reason, if in the future open weight models will be very near the quality of frontier labs, Anthropic and OpenAI will be out of business very soon. The game they play only make sense if their SOTA models do things that other models can't do at a comparable leve…
this is like saying the car with the better engine wins, but all we're doing is commuting to work
Re: Anthropic surpasses OpenAI to become most valuable AI startup
#189Earlier quoted context omitted.
Pretty amazed my response got flagged. Wanting to make a lot of money is offense ? I'll keep what you said in mind though. Grass greener and all that
Shame. Moderation on HN has been really heavy handed recently I’ve noticed. Don’t get me wrong, my friends are all making killer money…but they are also all out of therapy sessions, many are back on ADHD and SSRI meds, and the company seems to be full of egos and heavy handed mid management. I get the joy of meeting up with friends and their coworkers so I get to hear…a lot. More to life than money!
>More to life than money!
That's why I want to make enough to retire early!
In my 20s I wanted to retire by 40.
In my 30s I want to retire by 45.
Although I'm starting to understand the journey is just as important as the destination. I do have a fantastic low stress job currently.
Re: Anthropic surpasses OpenAI to become most valuable AI startup
#190I never want to hear from developers again that they are not susceptible to marketing. I see meet ups specifically about Claude often. Modern tupperware party. A colleague was convinced Claude is better so we played a game. We used the claude code and codex harness and I implemented some prs they needed with gpt5.5 and opus4.7 and asked them to identify which came from which only from the code. Couldn’t tell. Edit: i…
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