Why do their models always get Nerf'ed? Is Anthropic doing planned obsolescence or are they trying to encourage use of their latest models? Opus 5.5 was clearly Nerf'ed last week. I think they are at risk of getting a class action lawsuit for deceptive practices with this unannounced "model optimization" that actually changes performance as compared to the advertised performance in the official model cards.
It's frustrating they can't be transparent that they're even doing it, let alone why they're doing it.
They still charge you full price and don't offer any quota resets even though you're getting less value for money while you're working with a nerfed model.
>Why do their models always get Nerf'ed? Is Anthropic doing planned obsolescence or are they trying to encourage use of their latest models? Opus 5.5 was clearly Nerf'ed last week. I think they are at risk of getting a class action lawsuit for deceptive practices with this unannounced "model optimization" that actually changes performance as compared to the advertised performance in the official model cards.
You have psychosis my friend. They don't nerf the models.
I'm sure they'll do well, but I just can't get behind the investment thesis. Eventually the LLMs will plateau. Specialized expert models will dominate each knowledge area, because they can handle specific tasks without as much overhead. Then the swarm of agents will be burned onto silicon to reduce interference costs. Every X time intervals both the models and silicon will evolve, but less frequently than in the wild-west environment of today. Instead of new models every 3 days, we'll see a new set of models on a hardware release cadence. You'll be able to customize your model by mixing and matching expert model chips.
Software > hardware is a hell of a pivot, and Alphabet and Meta already do hardware. Unless they are building a huge IP moat and have proven themselves competitive with hardware, I don't see the rosy future.
The bet behind Anthropic is whether they will be the first to reach recursive self-improvement (RSI). Some experts thinks that if anyone achieve RSI, then it would be easy for them to reach superintelligence.
It sure feels like the obvious target for increasing revenue is to charge the software engineers more. Most other users that I see are either using the tech as a novelty, which will wear out really quick once the thumb screws come out, or users who cannot explain to me to save their life what the ROI is beyond "disruption".
The software engineers are also the most likely to pivot to local inference. I know several engineers playing around with local as a hobby. After the first bill comes in that means nobody gets the Christmas bonus this year, they'll resolve the issue and start figuring out how to adapt their workflow.
And somehow I doubt that they'll need frontier for the majority of customers who just need crud and libraries hooked up. Yeah it won't be as easy as with frontier but it just means the party is over and it's time to get back to work.
So ... Maybe security audits need frontier ... And they can pass the price increase onto their customers, I presume, easily enough.
I'm not convinced thats sufficient to pay off the bill that it took to get frontier in the first place.
[And so far, I haven't met a single software engineering customer, although surely they have to exist somewhere, who was actually comfortable vibe coding their crown jewels or even anything vaguely auxiliary. Please engineer ask the magic box to generate code for us. I think they'll be just as happy checking a box they says 'save money by using agentic development' if they box is hooked up to some future price gouging frontier or hypothetically cheaper local setup]
All these valuations seem nuts to me, but who knows. Maybe there's some reason big enterprise will keep shoveling money into the Anthropic furnace to avoid downloading GLM.
They're selling shares but it doesn't look like they're cashing out to me. Dario is going from 3.6% to 3.2% and then also losing 2% of his voting power.
Sure, he's putting aside the possibility of being a 10 trillionaire in exchange for merely being a billionaire and then maybe being a 100 billionaire later. But, I mean at some point there's diminishing returns on having a mountain of cash that would make a dragon blush.
It's not a scam if you do it in the open and don't break any laws. Look at SPCX. A lot of retail investors are just dumb. There are people here who will go off about how great a company it is-- fine, no argument. That's not what makes a good investment.
Americans want to invest how they want. They want to strike it big and the way the world works is most of them won't. I think we need to be at peace with that and maybe adjust the tax code some.
"The proposed offering consists of 825,000,000 shares of Class A common stock. Of these, 801,351,354 shares are being offered by Anthropic and 23,648,646 shares are being offered by certain existing stockholders. Anthropic will not receive any proceeds from the sale of shares by the selling stockholders."
WTF - so basically insiders / investors are dumping their stock on dumb money retail investors / our 401ks and the company is getting NOTHING?
They're offering about $65Bn, of which about $1.8Bn is from existing stock holders. That's a tiny amount of shares from existing stock holders and probably not anyone who works at the company.
Wouldn't "by Anthropic" mean by the company itself - new shares to raise money? In that case the 23M shares being sold "by existing stockholders" would include the founders, and seems surprisingly small ~1.7B at $75/share.
Maybe founders and employees aren't allowed to sell yet?
It doesn’t say what percentage of the total shares that would be.
It's frustrating they can't be transparent that they're even doing it, let alone why they're doing it.
They still charge you full price and don't offer any quota resets even though you're getting less value for money while you're working with a nerfed model.
You have psychosis my friend. They don't nerf the models.
I'm sure there were a lot of people without enough money to invest in Madoff's scheme that felt that way as well.
Software > hardware is a hell of a pivot, and Alphabet and Meta already do hardware. Unless they are building a huge IP moat and have proven themselves competitive with hardware, I don't see the rosy future.
That's my understanding of things at least.
I'm sure there was a point in time when everyone thought horses had a great moat.
The software engineers are also the most likely to pivot to local inference. I know several engineers playing around with local as a hobby. After the first bill comes in that means nobody gets the Christmas bonus this year, they'll resolve the issue and start figuring out how to adapt their workflow.
And somehow I doubt that they'll need frontier for the majority of customers who just need crud and libraries hooked up. Yeah it won't be as easy as with frontier but it just means the party is over and it's time to get back to work.
So ... Maybe security audits need frontier ... And they can pass the price increase onto their customers, I presume, easily enough.
I'm not convinced thats sufficient to pay off the bill that it took to get frontier in the first place.
[And so far, I haven't met a single software engineering customer, although surely they have to exist somewhere, who was actually comfortable vibe coding their crown jewels or even anything vaguely auxiliary. Please engineer ask the magic box to generate code for us. I think they'll be just as happy checking a box they says 'save money by using agentic development' if they box is hooked up to some future price gouging frontier or hypothetically cheaper local setup]
finally, a number analysts can obsess about until the IPO launches
All these valuations seem nuts to me, but who knows. Maybe there's some reason big enterprise will keep shoveling money into the Anthropic furnace to avoid downloading GLM.
https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/2130357/000162828026...
Sure, he's putting aside the possibility of being a 10 trillionaire in exchange for merely being a billionaire and then maybe being a 100 billionaire later. But, I mean at some point there's diminishing returns on having a mountain of cash that would make a dragon blush.
And yes, of course, the scam is almost done. Time to go the bank $$$.
Americans want to invest how they want. They want to strike it big and the way the world works is most of them won't. I think we need to be at peace with that and maybe adjust the tax code some.
"The proposed offering consists of 825,000,000 shares of Class A common stock. Of these, 801,351,354 shares are being offered by Anthropic and 23,648,646 shares are being offered by certain existing stockholders. Anthropic will not receive any proceeds from the sale of shares by the selling stockholders."
WTF - so basically insiders / investors are dumping their stock on dumb money retail investors / our 401ks and the company is getting NOTHING?
Maybe founders and employees aren't allowed to sell yet?
The company is making a lot of money from the 800M shares they do own that they are selling.