Anthropic's bet on code over imagegen is being vindicated, observer argues
IndraVahan · x · 2026-10-12
An AI observer reflects on Anthropic's contrarian call: while the entire industry — including its biggest competitor — pivoted to image diffusion models, one person at Anthropic insisted the money not go into imagegen, betting that code itself would unlock image and video generation before code generation was even good.
The post frames this as sheer conviction now being vindicated, widely read as a nod to Anthropic's recent generative breakthroughs via its code-centric route.
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