KOL Mocks Anthropic's Struggles: Weak Models, Pricey Subs as OpenAI and China Dominate
EXM7777 · x · 2026-08-12
A tech commentator criticizes Anthropic's current awkward position, calling Opus 5 underwhelming and Sonnet 5's price war ineffective, while noting that the decent Fable model is locked behind a pricey $200 subscription.
Meanwhile, OpenAI is on a legendary run with Codex, Chinese manufacturers are dominating local, cheap, and fast models, and Google is taking a long nap. The author suggests Anthropic is desperately hoping for cash to save itself.
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