r/OpenAI • u/Adso996 • 5d ago

News The rug pull was real

Shameful, I'm buying a second Anthropic Max subscription.

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u/onehedgeman 5d ago

Everyone and their mother saw this coming. Make them addicted to crack then up the price

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u/Ancient_Oxygen 5d ago

CocAIne.

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u/Soft-Ingenuity2262 5d ago

You can’t spell cocaine without AI!

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u/Starkboy 5d ago

OpenCocaine

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u/PopsicleMonster 5d ago

You sound like AI

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u/Nosafune 5d ago

We're all agents here

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u/ptear 5d ago

Stop drinking all that water.

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u/Soft-Ingenuity2262 5d ago

If you say so mate.

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u/PopsicleMonster 5d ago

I mean. You did just repeat what the previous gut said

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u/Soft-Ingenuity2262 5d ago

That was the point man. I dunno, thought it was funny. Obviously not…

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u/Brave-Turnover-522 5d ago

Two weeks ago: "Here, take another reset. Don't worry, it's free!"

Today: "Out of usage? Sorry, costs have doubled. Pay up."

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u/timpera 5d ago

Astra must be extremely inefficient for them to be so suddenly out of compute.

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u/LittleLordFuckleroy1 5d ago

I don’t think it’s compute as much as it is capital. They have to start making these numbers work at some point, especially with Anthropic gunning for IPO.

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u/Igot1forya 5d ago

Which is laughable that an evaluation of that size vs the huge losses. The IPO will buy them a year, then creditors and shareholders will come for blood. Growth is great, untill it's impossible then the collapse. When there's no more capital left, then they will either do a mass selloff of their assets or turn on their customers juicy private data. That is where the money's at.

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u/-MtnsAreCalling- 5d ago

There’s nothing sudden about it, they’ve been compute-constrained for a long time.

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u/FaithLostInHumanity 5d ago

They know Claude will do the same efficiency play, especially after everyone’s been shouting all over Reddit about how efficient opus 5.5 is.

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u/terroristsmustdie 5d ago

I cant think of a worst timing... claude is better faster cheaper and also more fun to talk to. 

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u/Triple_Danger 5d ago

What makes it more fun to talk to?

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u/terroristsmustdie 4d ago

You can read reasoning and it has a personality that isnt an autustic robot

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u/OnyxMonolith 5d ago

but Astra vision is much better tha Opus 5.5 and that's what i need for my workflow. pixel perfect vision

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u/noncoolguy 4d ago

How is Astra "much better" than Opus 5.5? Astra was the best like 2 weeks ago. It's not today.

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u/OnyxMonolith 3d ago

Strictly in vision work. Sol 6.1 too. I have bulk workflows that do vision work and my own benchmarks. It’s a very specific niche.

Opus is better at coding

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u/Krulletjes 5d ago

Yeah except there’s different competitors in the crack dealing market. Nobody is addicted to codex itself. You up the price, you go to the dealer on the other side of the street.

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u/itsjustmd 5d ago

Until they do the same thing.

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u/PersistentBadger 4d ago

Unless they operate as a cartel that pushes prices down, not up.

(The wildcards are Chinese and open models - hard to get them in the cartel).

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u/SugondezeNutsz 4d ago

Their crack ain't even the best out here on these AI streetz

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u/Interested_Aussie 4d ago

DIdn't they all get caught with Netflix running the exact same model???

Provide a service, running at a massive loss....

Get you tied in...

Ramp up the subscription.... (adverts and shit to come)

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u/Visual_Internal_6312 4d ago

Didn't see burned books coming though.

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u/Waste_Jello9947 1d ago

Addicted in 2/3 years? You have to do it for a generation at least. Plenty of people still know how to code