Anthropic Co-founder and Chief Science Officer Jared Kaplan stated his firm lower Windsurf’s direct entry to Anthropic’s Claude AI fashions largely due to rumors and studies that OpenAI, its largest competitor, is buying the AI coding assistant.
“We actually are simply making an attempt to allow our prospects who’re going to sustainably be working with us sooner or later,” stated Kaplan throughout an onstage interview Thursday with TechCrunch at TC Classes: AI 2025.
“I believe it could be odd for us to be promoting Claude to OpenAI,” Kaplan stated.
The remark comes only a few weeks after Bloomberg reported that OpenAI was acquiring Windsurf for $3 billion. Earlier this week, Windsurf stated that Anthropic lower its direct entry to Claude 3.5 Sonnet and Claude 3.7 Sonnet, two of the extra standard AI fashions for coding, forcing the startup to seek out third-party computing suppliers on comparatively quick discover. Windsurf stated it was dissatisfied in Anthropic’s determination and that it would trigger short-term instability for customers making an attempt to entry Claude by way of Windsurf.
Windsurf declined to touch upon Kaplan’s remarks, and an OpenAI spokesperson didn’t instantly reply to TechCrunch’s request. The businesses haven’t confirmed the acquisition rumors.
A part of the explanation Anthropic lower Windsurf’s entry to Claude, in line with Kaplan, is as a result of the corporate is sort of computing-constrained in the present day. Anthropic wish to reserve its computing for what Kaplan characterised as “lasting partnerships.”
Nonetheless, Kaplan stated the corporate hopes to vastly enhance the supply of fashions it will possibly provide customers and builders within the coming months. He added that Anthropic has simply began to unlock capability on a brand new computing cluster from its companion, Amazon, which he says is “actually huge and continues to scale.”
As Anthropic pulls away from Windsurf, Kaplan stated he’s collaborating with different prospects constructing AI coding instruments, resembling Cursor — an organization Kaplan stated Anthropic expects to work with for a very long time. Kaplan rejected the concept Anthropic was in competitors with corporations like Cursor, which is creating its personal AI fashions.
In the meantime, Kaplan says Anthropic is more and more targeted on creating its personal agentic coding merchandise, resembling Claude Code, relatively than AI chatbot experiences. Whereas corporations like OpenAI, Google, and Meta are competing for the preferred AI chatbot platform, Kaplan stated the chatbot paradigm was limiting on account of its static nature, and that AI brokers would in the long term be rather more useful for customers.