Anthropic co-founder on cutting access to Windsurf
a year ago
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- Anthropic cut Windsurf's direct access to Claude AI models due to rumors of OpenAI acquiring Windsurf.
- Jared Kaplan stated Anthropic aims to support sustainable, long-term partnerships rather than selling Claude to competitors like OpenAI.
- Windsurf lost access to Claude 3.5 Sonnet and Claude 3.7 Sonnet, causing potential short-term instability for its users.
- Anthropic is currently computing-constrained and prioritizing resources for lasting partnerships.
- Anthropic is expanding model availability and unlocking capacity via a new Amazon computing cluster.
- Kaplan highlighted collaboration with AI coding tool builders like Cursor, not viewing them as competitors.
- Anthropic is shifting focus from chatbots to agentic coding products like Claude Code for long-term user benefits.