Anthropic filed to go public bigger than OpenAI — and two more shifts for builders
AI's money is splitting in two right now: valuations are soaring into the trillions, while the cost of actually building keeps crashing. Three things landed for builders — and two of them you can act on today.
Here's the 2-minute video version if you want the quick pass first:
1. Anthropic filed to go public — bigger than OpenAI
Anthropic filed a confidential IPO at a 965-billion-dollar valuation, topping OpenAI for the first time after a 65-billion-dollar raise.
- It filed confidentially with U.S. regulators, with a public listing expected to follow.
- OpenAI filed its own a week later, valued near 852 billion.
- Anthropic's run-rate revenue is around 47 billion, and it's reportedly approaching its first profitable quarter.
Why it matters: the labs you pay for every day are heading to the public market. That usually brings pressure on pricing and packaging — so it's worth keeping an eye on what happens to your subscription costs and rate limits.
2. DeepSeek made its 75% price cut permanent
Follow-up to DeepSeek's earlier discounting: it just made the 75% cut on its flagship V4-Pro permanent.
- Output now costs 87 cents per million tokens, down from 3.48.
- It keeps a 1-million-token context for whole-codebase work.
- That undercuts GPT-5, Claude, and Gemini on price, reigniting the API price war.
Why it matters: frontier-grade coding just got about 4x cheaper, so it's a strong option to route bulk work to. One real caution though — it's a Chinese-origin API, so keep sensitive or proprietary code off it and reserve it for the work where that's not a concern.
3. OpenCode is now the #1 open-source coding agent
OpenCode passed Cursor to become the most-used coding agent, with 172K-plus GitHub stars.
- The agent itself is free and open-source — no subscription.
- It's provider-agnostic: plug in Claude, OpenAI, Gemini, or a local model via Ollama, with no vendor lock-in.
- You bring (and pay for) your own model — or run it fully free on local models.
Why it matters: pair OpenCode (free) with cheap DeepSeek (87 cents per million) and you've got a real dev setup without paying for Claude's or OpenAI's top tiers. That's the practical takeaway from today's two-sided move: the labs are worth a fortune, yet you can build for almost nothing.
The money split two ways at once — valuations up, costs down. Watch today's full episode, or catch a new one every day on dani / AI News & Creative.