Sam Altman has hit out at Anthropic in a new social media post.
Sam Altman has labelled Anthropic “an expensive product to rich people”.
The 40-year-old CEO of OpenAI has taken to social media to accuse his AI rival of making a “dishonest” Super Bowl commercial.
He wrote on X: “First, the good part of the Anthropic ads: they are funny, and I laughed.
“But I wonder why Anthropic would go for something so clearly dishonest. Our most important principle for ads says that we won’t do exactly this; we would obviously never run ads in the way Anthropic depicts them. We are not stupid and we know our users would reject that.
“I guess it’s on brand for Anthropic doublespeak to use a deceptive ad to critique theoretical deceptive ads that aren’t real, but a Super Bowl ad is not where I would expect it.”
Altman also outlined the differences between his business and Anthropic.
He continued: “More importantly, we believe everyone deserves to use AI and are committed to free access, because we believe access creates agency. More Texans use ChatGPT for free than total people use Claude in the US, so we have a differently-shaped problem than they do. (If you want to pay for ChatGPT Plus or Pro, we don’t show you ads.)
“Anthropic serves an expensive product to rich people. We are glad they do that and we are doing that too, but we also feel strongly that we need to bring AI to billions of people who can’t pay for subscriptions.
“Maybe even more importantly: Anthropic wants to control what people do with AI—they block companies they don’t like from using their coding product (including us), they want to write the rules themselves for what people can and can’t use AI for, and now they also want to tell other companies what their business models can be.
“We are committed to broad, democratic decision making in addition to access.”
OpenAI boss Sam Altman slams Anthropic
