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OpenAI has always been a company that wants everything.\",\"type\":\"text\",\"version\":1}],\"direction\":\"ltr\",\"format\":\"start\",\"indent\":0,\"type\":\"paragraph\",\"version\":1,\"textFormat\":0,\"textStyle\":\"\"},{\"children\":[],\"direction\":\"ltr\",\"format\":\"start\",\"indent\":0,\"type\":\"paragraph\",\"version\":1,\"textFormat\":0,\"textStyle\":\"\"},{\"children\":[{\"detail\":0,\"format\":0,\"mode\":\"normal\",\"style\":\"\",\"text\":\"On the model side: math, science, coding, reasoning, multimodal, architectural innovation.\",\"type\":\"text\",\"version\":1}],\"direction\":\"ltr\",\"format\":\"start\",\"indent\":0,\"type\":\"paragraph\",\"version\":1,\"textFormat\":0,\"textStyle\":\"\"},{\"children\":[],\"direction\":\"ltr\",\"format\":\"start\",\"indent\":0,\"type\":\"paragraph\",\"version\":1,\"textFormat\":0,\"textStyle\":\"\"},{\"children\":[{\"detail\":0,\"format\":0,\"mode\":\"normal\",\"style\":\"\",\"text\":\"On the product side: Codex, Atlas (web browser), robotics, OpenAI Frontier (enterprise platform), smart hardware, chips, data centers, et al. 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Among the frontier labs, it was the only one to abandon multimodal early. It never mentioned architecture innovation, never emphasized reasoning models or RL or continual learning as separate narratives. Instead, it focused on scaling language models well and went deep on a single capability: coding.\",\"type\":\"text\",\"version\":1}],\"direction\":\"ltr\",\"format\":\"start\",\"indent\":0,\"type\":\"paragraph\",\"version\":1,\"textFormat\":0,\"textStyle\":\"\"},{\"children\":[],\"direction\":\"ltr\",\"format\":\"start\",\"indent\":0,\"type\":\"paragraph\",\"version\":1,\"textFormat\":0,\"textStyle\":\"\"},{\"children\":[{\"detail\":0,\"format\":0,\"mode\":\"normal\",\"style\":\"\",\"text\":\"The logic for why coding matters is now consensus, but it’s worth restating:\",\"type\":\"text\",\"version\":1}],\"direction\":\"ltr\",\"format\":\"start\",\"indent\":0,\"type\":\"paragraph\",\"version\":1,\"textFormat\":0,\"textStyle\":\"\"},{\"children\":[],\"direction\":\"ltr\",\"format\":\"start\",\"indent\":0,\"type\":\"paragraph\",\"version\":1,\"textFormat\":0,\"textStyle\":\"\"},{\"children\":[{\"children\":[{\"detail\":0,\"format\":0,\"mode\":\"normal\",\"style\":\"\",\"text\":\"Coding is the path to everything. The vast majority of tasks in the digital world can be expressed as code.\",\"type\":\"text\",\"version\":1}],\"direction\":\"ltr\",\"format\":\"\",\"indent\":0,\"type\":\"listitem\",\"version\":1,\"value\":1}],\"direction\":null,\"format\":\"\",\"indent\":0,\"type\":\"list\",\"version\":1,\"listType\":\"bullet\",\"start\":1,\"tag\":\"ul\"},{\"children\":[],\"direction\":null,\"format\":\"\",\"indent\":0,\"type\":\"paragraph\",\"version\":1,\"textFormat\":0,\"textStyle\":\"\"},{\"children\":[{\"children\":[{\"detail\":0,\"format\":0,\"mode\":\"normal\",\"style\":\"\",\"text\":\"Coding is the most learnable capability for models. 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This year, models are improving more in a single quarter than they previously did in a full year.\",\"type\":\"text\",\"version\":1}],\"direction\":\"ltr\",\"format\":\"\",\"indent\":0,\"type\":\"listitem\",\"version\":1,\"value\":1}],\"direction\":null,\"format\":\"\",\"indent\":0,\"type\":\"list\",\"version\":1,\"listType\":\"bullet\",\"start\":1,\"tag\":\"ul\"},{\"children\":[],\"direction\":\"ltr\",\"format\":\"start\",\"indent\":0,\"type\":\"paragraph\",\"version\":1,\"textFormat\":0,\"textStyle\":\"\"},{\"children\":[{\"detail\":0,\"format\":0,\"mode\":\"normal\",\"style\":\"\",\"text\":\"The results proved the bet right. Coding turned out to be the single most important capability.\",\"type\":\"text\",\"version\":1}],\"direction\":\"ltr\",\"format\":\"start\",\"indent\":0,\"type\":\"paragraph\",\"version\":1,\"textFormat\":0,\"textStyle\":\"\"},{\"children\":[],\"direction\":\"ltr\",\"format\":\"start\",\"indent\":0,\"type\":\"paragraph\",\"version\":1,\"textFormat\":0,\"textStyle\":\"\"},{\"children\":[{\"detail\":0,\"format\":0,\"mode\":\"normal\",\"style\":\"\",\"text\":\"OpenAI only truly woke up to this around March, cutting back side projects such as Sora and making coding the company’s top priority.\",\"type\":\"text\",\"version\":1}],\"direction\":\"ltr\",\"format\":\"start\",\"indent\":0,\"type\":\"paragraph\",\"version\":1,\"textFormat\":0,\"textStyle\":\"\"},{\"children\":[],\"direction\":\"ltr\",\"format\":\"start\",\"indent\":0,\"type\":\"paragraph\",\"version\":1,\"textFormat\":0,\"textStyle\":\"\"},{\"children\":[{\"detail\":0,\"format\":0,\"mode\":\"normal\",\"style\":\"\",\"text\":\"How Anthropic Picked Coding\",\"type\":\"text\",\"version\":1}],\"direction\":\"ltr\",\"format\":\"start\",\"indent\":0,\"type\":\"heading\",\"version\":1,\"tag\":\"h2\"},{\"children\":[],\"direction\":\"ltr\",\"format\":\"start\",\"indent\":0,\"type\":\"paragraph\",\"version\":1,\"textFormat\":0,\"textStyle\":\"\"},{\"children\":[{\"detail\":0,\"format\":0,\"mode\":\"normal\",\"style\":\"\",\"text\":\"One question we keep returning to: how did Anthropic identify coding so early?\",\"type\":\"text\",\"version\":1}],\"direction\":\"ltr\",\"format\":\"start\",\"indent\":0,\"type\":\"paragraph\",\"version\":1,\"textFormat\":0,\"textStyle\":\"\"},{\"children\":[],\"direction\":\"ltr\",\"format\":\"start\",\"indent\":0,\"type\":\"paragraph\",\"version\":1,\"textFormat\":0,\"textStyle\":\"\"},{\"children\":[{\"detail\":0,\"format\":0,\"mode\":\"normal\",\"style\":\"\",\"text\":\"The answer is part foresight, part luck.\",\"type\":\"text\",\"version\":1}],\"direction\":\"ltr\",\"format\":\"start\",\"indent\":0,\"type\":\"paragraph\",\"version\":1,\"textFormat\":0,\"textStyle\":\"\"},{\"children\":[],\"direction\":\"ltr\",\"format\":\"start\",\"indent\":0,\"type\":\"paragraph\",\"version\":1,\"textFormat\":0,\"textStyle\":\"\"},{\"children\":[{\"detail\":0,\"format\":0,\"mode\":\"normal\",\"style\":\"\",\"text\":\"In its early days, Anthropic struggled to raise money. 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The important detail is that the document was dated 2021, long before anyone understood the real market opportunity in this direction.\",\"type\":\"text\",\"version\":1}],\"direction\":\"ltr\",\"format\":\"start\",\"indent\":0,\"type\":\"paragraph\",\"version\":1,\"textFormat\":0,\"textStyle\":\"\"},{\"children\":[],\"direction\":\"ltr\",\"format\":\"start\",\"indent\":0,\"type\":\"paragraph\",\"version\":1,\"textFormat\":0,\"textStyle\":\"\"},{\"children\":[{\"detail\":0,\"format\":0,\"mode\":\"normal\",\"style\":\"\",\"text\":\"But then fundraising got easier. 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He doesn’t want safety people arguing that only safety matters while product people argue that only product matters, with every conflict escalating to leadership for resolution. His core management philosophy is to distribute tradeoffs to individuals, giving everyone a partial founder’s perspective. Everyone is working through the same set of tradeoffs, just from different positions.\",\"type\":\"text\",\"version\":1}],\"direction\":\"ltr\",\"format\":\"start\",\"indent\":0,\"type\":\"paragraph\",\"version\":1,\"textFormat\":0,\"textStyle\":\"\"},{\"children\":[],\"direction\":\"ltr\",\"format\":\"start\",\"indent\":0,\"type\":\"paragraph\",\"version\":1,\"textFormat\":0,\"textStyle\":\"\"},{\"children\":[{\"detail\":0,\"format\":0,\"mode\":\"normal\",\"style\":\"\",\"text\":\"This is why Anthropic emphasizes “one team” relentlessly. Below the executive level, there are no title distinctions. Everyone is a Member of Technical Staff. The labels “researcher vs. engineer,” “senior vs. junior,” “architect vs. implementer” are deliberately minimized.\",\"type\":\"text\",\"version\":1}],\"direction\":\"ltr\",\"format\":\"start\",\"indent\":0,\"type\":\"paragraph\",\"version\":1,\"textFormat\":0,\"textStyle\":\"\"},{\"children\":[],\"direction\":\"ltr\",\"format\":\"start\",\"indent\":0,\"type\":\"paragraph\",\"version\":1,\"textFormat\":0,\"textStyle\":\"\"},{\"children\":[{\"detail\":0,\"format\":0,\"mode\":\"normal\",\"style\":\"\",\"text\":\"The contrast with OpenAI is stark. OpenAI has maintained a strong researcher culture with a visible internal hierarchy: Researcher \u003e Research Engineer \u003e Software Engineer. Product teams are frequently overruled by research, and when conflicts arise, research doesn’t feel compelled to cooperate. Product innovation at OpenAI is heavily researcher-driven: a research team produces a new result, the product team receives an email, and they start looking for nails to fit the new hammer.\",\"type\":\"text\",\"version\":1}],\"direction\":\"ltr\",\"format\":\"start\",\"indent\":0,\"type\":\"paragraph\",\"version\":1,\"textFormat\":0,\"textStyle\":\"\"},{\"children\":[],\"direction\":\"ltr\",\"format\":\"start\",\"indent\":0,\"type\":\"paragraph\",\"version\":1,\"textFormat\":0,\"textStyle\":\"\"},{\"children\":[{\"detail\":0,\"format\":0,\"mode\":\"normal\",\"style\":\"\",\"text\":\"At Anthropic, product and model teams are tightly integrated. Product can influence and define model capabilities, not just package them. 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