CEO Amjad Masad says Replit is no longer working with Anthropic, citing cost and saying "ChatGPT is better now"; source: the partnership is still in place (TechCrunch)

Replit CEO and co-founder Amjad Masad announced Thursday at TechCrunch Disrupt that the AI coding platform is no longer working with Anthropic. Masad stated the decision was based on cost, partnership, and performance, noting that "ChatGPT is better now." He added that the company uses an internal benchmark to assess metrics and that the shift was influenced by the performance of Sol and Astra in building applications from scratch.

Under the previous partnership, Replit used Anthropic's Claude models to run its cloud-based software development platform. While Replit announced a partnership with OpenAI in August, TechCrunch reports that there was previously no indication the company had ended its relationship with Anthropic. Following Masad's comments, a person familiar with the situation told TechCrunch that the partnership is still in place.

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