Anthropic Co-founder on Cutting Access To Windsurf: 'It Would Be Odd For Us To Sell Claude To OpenAI' (techcrunch.com) 4
Anthropic cut AI coding assistant Windsurf's direct access to its Claude models after media reported that rival OpenAI plans to acquire the startup for $3 billion. Anthropic co-founder Jared Kaplan told TechCrunch that "it would be odd for us to be selling Claude to OpenAI," explaining the decision to cut access to Claude 3.5 Sonnet and Claude 3.7 Sonnet models.
Shows the risk & capriciousness of cloud servi (Score:3)
Imagine Amazon or Redhat were to acquire a company, and in response Microsoft would decide to send them a notice that all their Azure, Office365 services, and Windows licenses for all their direct server infrastructure terminate in 7 days; all resources and deleted will be cancelled and deleted.
"It would be odd to sell access to the rights to have Windows systems to a Linux company"
They wouldn't, but isn't it comparable to Anthropic's decisions?
Re: (Score:2)
I don't think that is really good analogy. Microsoft is more or less no longer in the Windows business; I don't think they could care less if you run Windows or pick your Linux flavor, just as long as it is an Azure workload.
It would be more like if Amazon bought some SaaS provider that had all their infrastructure on Azure PaaS offerings. I absolutely would expect as part of the transition a pretty rapid migration from Azure infrastructure to AWS, in that situation.
Here come the silos. (Score:3)
It was bound to happen. Expect all AI backend and tool providers to move towards vendor lock-in.