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So they got a lot of brand recognition by doing the opposite approach.

But, you know, I mean, in terms of like staying power and everything.

you know, getting closer to turning a profit, Anthropic is ahead.

And especially as, you know, we see the fundraisers happen this year and both get closer to going public, we are seeing Anthropic maybe even like flirt with a higher valuation than OpenAI.

So it's just really interesting how these kind of battles are playing out this year.

And I'm sure that the executives within both companies are getting a little bit petty about trying to beat each other.

Yeah, that's a great question.

I feel like the vibes are a little better than a month ago when I wrote that piece, but they're still not great.

You know, we've seen a bunch of fanfare around Codex, so that probably helped.

You know, they're not doing badly, per se, in the Muscovy Altman trial, which I think really helps.

It's not really through...

a big, you know, win of their own, but rather like Musk kind of floundering on the stand, it seems like.

Yeah, like a win is a win.

And they put out a blog post like in the past week about their principles and kind of like re, you know, exploring democratization and empowerment and

I think they're really on a PR kick right now.

They're really trying to rebrand their public perception.

So I think the vibes are still not great, but I think that they are trying very hard to change that, and they're having a little bit of success.

No, I really don't, honestly.

Because, yeah, I mean, people just know better.

You know, they've seen what's happened in the past couple of years.