Replit is no longer working with Anthropic, CEO says
Replit's CEO said the company has ended its partnership with Anthropic, citing cost, performance, and partnership reasons, though insiders dispute this.Summary
Replit, the AI coding platform popular among startup founders and developers, is no longer working with Anthropic, according to CEO and co-founder Amjad Masad, who announced the decision onstage at TechCrunch Disrupt. Masad cited cost, partnership, and performance as reasons, noting that ChatGPT is now better and that Replit's internal and public benchmarks show OpenAI's Sol and Astra models outperform Anthropic's for building vibe-coded applications from scratch. Replit had announced a partnership with OpenAI in August, but previously used Anthropic's Claude models to run its platform. However, insiders familiar with the matter pushed back, with one person saying the partnership was still in place, and a September blog post cited Anthropic's Claude Fable 5 and 5.1 as models in Replit Agent's production environment. Masad also shared that enterprise contracts now make up about 15% of revenue, up from 2% last year, and more than 50% of revenue is B2B, though ARR figures were not disclosed. He emphasized the need for good AI safety measures, comparing AI agents to humans needing a proper habitat with orchestration, error recovery, security, sandboxing, networking, and identity management.
(Source：TechCrunch)