.@AndrewCurran_ has made a very important point here, with which I fully agree.

Anthropic focused on coding from the very beginning and (almost) nothing else. Dario Amodei said early on that if the coding problem is "solved," all other problems will be solved as well. Therefore, no distractions from this area.

All the other companies regularly got sidetracked with side quests and thus abandoned their focus. OpenAI invested massive amounts of compute in Sora but then even decided to discontinue the app. They also developed a language model, an image model, and extensive access to free ChatGPT. I don't want to judge this, just observe it.

Google did the same: AI Mode, Image Model, Veo3.1, Music Model, and so much more. Again, these were certainly well-considered decisions.

But Anthropic wanted one thing from the start, and only one thing: to focus on coding and then be at the forefront of enterprise computing. And it's safe to say: they succeeded.

OpenAI invested massive amounts of compute in Sora but then decided to discontinue the app. I like the term "intelligence company" because I would argue that Anthropic sees itself in exactly that way. At least so far, Anthropic's own path has been successful. And I would say that OpenAI has followed suit and is increasingly abandoning its side projects. Focus on Codex and ChatGPT, less Sora, voice mode, etc. It's about the race for the best models. Distraction costs money and intelligence resources.