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Oct 20, 2026, 12:46 AM EDT
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OpenAI Races to Raise ~$30B at a $1.4T+ Valuation Before Anthropic's Mid-November IPO
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Illustration contrasting a red box labeled CEO says Replit no longer works with Anthropic against a green box labeled insider says the partnership is still in place, above a blue box describing Replit's own September production data showing Claude models still in use.

October 16, 2026

Replit's CEO Says It Dropped Anthropic. An Insider and Replit's Own Blog Say Otherwise.

Amjad Masad told TechCrunch Disrupt that Replit no longer works with Anthropic, citing cost and performance. A source says the partnership stands, and Replit's own September engineering post shows Claude still in production — a live case study in multi-model routing economics.

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