Battlelines are being drawn between the major AI labs and the popular applications that rely on them.
This week, both Anthropic and OpenAI took shots at two leading AI apps: Windsurf, one of the most popular vibe coding tools, and Granola, a buzzy AI app for taking meeting notes.
« With less than five days of notice, Anthropic decided to cut off nearly all of our first-party capacity to all Claude 3.x models, » Windsurf CEO Varun Mohan wrote on X this week, noting that « we wanted to pay them for the full capacity. » An additional statement on Windsurf’s website said: « We are concerned that Anthropic’s conduct will harm many in the industry, not just Windsurf. »
Here, Mohan’s company is collateral damage in Anthropic’s rivalry with OpenAI, which has reportedly been in talks to acquire Windsurf for about $3 billion. The deal hasn’t been confirmed, but even the spectre of it happening was enough for Anthropic to cut off one of the most popular apps that it powers. After a spokesperson told TechCrunch’s Maxwell Zeff that Anthropic was « prioritizing capacity for sustainable partnerships, » co-founder Jared Kaplan put it more bluntly.
« We really are just trying to enable our customers w …
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Popular AI apps get caught in the crosshairs of Anthropic and OpenAI