Popular AI apps get caught in the crosshairs of Anthropic and OpenAI

Battlelines are being drawn betwixt the large AI labs and the fashionable applications that trust connected them.

This week, some Anthropic and OpenAI took shots astatine 2 starring AI apps: Windsurf, 1 of the astir fashionable vibe coding tools, and Granola, a buzzy AI app for taking gathering notes.

"With little than 5 days of notice, Anthropic decided to chopped disconnected astir each of our first-party capableness to each Claude 3.x models," Windsurf CEO Varun Mohan wrote connected X this week, noting that "we wanted to wage them for the afloat capacity." An further statement connected Windsurf's website said: "We are acrophobic that Anthropic's behaviour volition harm galore successful the industry, not conscionable Windsurf."

Here, Mohan's institution is collateral harm successful Anthropic's rivalry with OpenAI, which has reportedly been successful talks to get Windsurf for astir $3 billion. The woody hasn't been confirmed, but adjacent the spectre of it happening was capable for Anthropic to chopped disconnected 1 of the astir fashionable apps that it powers. After a spokesperson told TechCrunch's Maxwell Zeff that Anthropic was "prioritizing capableness for sustainable partnerships," co-founder Jared Kaplan enactment it much bluntly.

"We truly are conscionable trying to alteration our customers w …

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