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Cheaper AI Models Are Turning Into a Problem for Anthropic

Bullish Gator

Ramp economist says cheaper AI models are fueling an OpenAI-Anthropic price war as corporate AI spending flattens, threatened by data-center backlash, corporate limits, midterm politics, and debates over AI in schools.

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Ramp's lead economist lays out a clear change in the economics of AI: the price of running large models is falling, corporate AI spending has flattened, and that combination is sharpening a price war between OpenAI and Anthropic. The clip pairs data on adoption and return on investment with on-the-ground constraints, local backlash to data centers and corporate caps on employee AI spending, which helps explain why lower model costs have not translated into runaway corporate budgets or a simple winner-take-all market.