OpenAI offers discounts up to 90 percent to poach Anthropic's biggest customers
AI summary OpenAI is winning business from Anthropic through steep price cuts, with Rippling, Replit and DataCamp moving more of their AI budgets to it. According to Rippling's chief executive Parker Conrad, OpenAI now handles 52% of the firm's coding work, up from 16%, while Anthropic's portion dropped from 57% to 18%. Replit switched after receiving more than 30% off a contract worth above $100 million per year, and DataCamp's Jonathan Cornelissen reported cost savings of 80 to 90%. An investor memo indicates Anthropic's growth slowed between the second and third quarters.