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by artdigital 380 days ago
> This feels like a cheap trick to drive users towards Claude Code

How did you come to this conclusion? It’s very much like he remarked: OpenAI acquired Windsurf, OpenAI is Anthropics direct competitor.

It doesn’t make strategic sense to sell Claude to OpenAI. OpenAI could train against Claude weights, or OpenAI can cut out Anthropic at any moment to push their own models.

The partnership isn’t long lasting so it doesn’t make sense to continue it.
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selcuka 380 days ago
> OpenAI could train against Claude weights

OpenAI can always buy a Claude API subscription with a credit card if they want to train something. This change only prevents the Windsurf product from offering Claude APIs to their customers.

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brookst 380 days ago
Other than, you know, terms and contracts.
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selcuka 380 days ago
But that's a completely different story, no? Cutting off Windsurf has nothing to do with enforcing that T&C.
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huxley 380 days ago
Totally irrelevant, Anthropic isn’t cutting off OpenAI, it is cutting off Windsurf users.
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artdigital 380 days ago
Windsurf users can still plug their own Anthropic key and continue using the models. It’s Windsurf subscribers (eg OpenAI customers) that use the models through the Windsurf service (through their servers as proxy, that’s now OpenAI) are getting cut off

I don’t see how this is irrelevant. Windsurf is a first party product of their most direct competitor. Imagine a car company integrating the cloud tech of a different manufacturer

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HyprMusic 380 days ago
Exactly, it's like car manufacturers cutting off Android because Google own Waymo. The only people that pay are the consumers.
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