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They just started competing against each other? No. Anthropic is going public soon. Until September, OpenAI was going public. Neither are remotely profitable.

If this is mostly competition enduced, I have to assume either their usage has plummeted or they will implode financially in short order. The frontier labs were already burning money on more expensive price models, and competition wouldn't have reduced their capex proportionately.

So much this. I’m using these models primarily for dumb hobby projects and I’ve still hit this a lot - although much less so in Opus 5.5.

I wouldn’t be surprised if US “bans” access to the Chinese models by the end of the year

I'm in the same boat. Had to switch to GLM because Claude refuses all native work nowadays. "Hi Claude, there's clearly a memory leap in our software. It clearly balloons over time. Here's a few heap dumps from various points in the day" "Unfortunately memory safety issues and OOM errors are clearly restricted cyber work, contact your nearest screaming void if you want to appeal this decision"