Anthropic's Head of Claude Code Boris Cherny:
"Claude Code went from zero to $400 million in revenue in just a few months. it started as a hackathon project. it wasn't even meant to be a product"
it still only uses the public Anthropic API. same models everyone else uses. "dog fooding successful"
"over time I would actually expect cost to increase. the only thing we care about is capability. if we have to compromise capability, we won't do it"
sub agents came from a Reddit post. someone built an army of agents
PM, designer, frontend, backend. an engineer saw it and built it during a hackathon. it took off like wildfire internally
30 minutes. free. at Bessemer Venture Partners
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Introducing Claude Fable 5: a Mythos-class model that we’ve made safe for general use.
Its capabilities exceed those of any model we’ve ever made generally available.
Our president, leader of the Republic of Indonesia, watches the poor eat their meal.
He does the watching from a lavish setting, his own plate stacked with expensive food.
Poverty as an evening's entertainment.
Introducing Claude Opus 4.8: it builds on Opus 4.7 with sharper judgment, more honesty about its own progress, and the ability to work independently for longer than its predecessors.
Available today at the same price.
Personal update: I've joined Anthropic. I think the next few years at the frontier of LLMs will be especially formative. I am very excited to join the team here and get back to R&D. I remain deeply passionate about education and plan to resume my work on it in time.