Tech & AIRichard EcholsAnthropic's IPO Has a Problem. My Free AI Just Tied GPT-6.1.

Anthropic's IPO Has a Problem. My Free AI Just Tied GPT-6.1.

Long-form14:35Science & TechnologyPublished Oct 20, 2026, 12:45 PM · 2d ago
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I gave my AI away for free, and on our coding test it tied GPT-6.1. Meanwhile Anthropic is reportedly asking Wall Street for a valuation of up to $2 trillion, and the main thing it sells is access to a model. So what happens when the model is free? What we released at RMDW, how it did, the other free model that just dropped, the real case for Anthropic, and the real case against it. This is not investment advice. Jah 7.0 (free, open weights, MIT): https://huggingface.co/RMDWLLC/Jah-7.0 Free AI assessment for your business (about 10 minutes): https://rmdw.ai/?utm_source=youtube Become an RMDW Insider ($4.99/mo): every essay 24 hours early, a vote on the next topic, your name in the credits: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCvZNH8z8q38CJ3Cqe1PMLCw/join Follow me on X: https://x.com/richardbechols CHAPTERS 0:00 I gave my AI away for free 0:54 Chapter 1: We gave it away 2:15 Chapter 2: The test 4:12 Chapter 3: It's not just us 6:28 Chapter 4: The model is a commodity 8:32 Chapter 5: The case for Anthropic 10:17 Chapter 6: The case against 12:48 Chapter 7: What this means for you THE TEST (RMDW, Oct 17, 2026) Same 34 private coding tasks (20 standard, 14 hard), 2 runs each, scored by automated tests in a sandbox, thinking on. Out of 68: Jah 7.0 66, GPT-6.1 Sol 66, Muse Spark Open 66, Claude Opus 5.5 65. Every model went 28 for 28 on the hard set. Typical seconds per task: Jah 7.0 about 7, Claude Opus 5.5 about 10, GPT-6.1 Sol about 23, Muse Spark Open about 44. Jah ran on RMDW's own machines, the others through OpenRouter. Our own small, coding-only test. SOURCES Anthropic Q3 revenue $16.8B, +45%, adjusted profit, $518B compute commitments: Reuters (Oct 14 and 15, 2026); $1.5T valuation talk: Reuters (Oct 15, 2026) Filing Oct 26, listing mid-November: IFR (Oct 15, 2026); IPO pushed to November: The Decoder citing The Information (Sep 20, 2026) New Constructs "most ridiculous IPO of 2026", $144B worst case: TNW (Oct 16, 2026) Guillaume Princen on open models: Bloomberg TV (Oct 14, 2026) Dario Amodei, 10x planned vs 80x: Anthropic developer event (May 2026); Claude Code $2.5B run-rate: Anthropic (Feb 12, 2026); 6,000 companies at $100K+: The Decoder citing The Information Accenture $29 Claude allowance: 404 Media (Oct 15, 2026); Replit: TechCrunch (Oct 17, 2026) DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017 (MIT, DeepSWE 77 self-reported, pricing): DeepSeek on Hugging Face and its API docs (Oct 17, 2026); cost per task: The Decoder (Oct 17, 2026); outage: Bloomberg (Oct 2026) Opus 5.5 pricing: Anthropic "AI models have reached commodity status": Tomasz Tunguz (Oct 7, 2026); Satya Nadella quotes: OfficeChai (Mar 2025); price of progress: MIT FutureTech (2025); OpenAI 80% price cut: Crypto Briefing (Sep 2026) RMDW = Real-world Models, Data and Workflows. AI is about results, not prompts. CREDITS News footage (Bloomberg, CNBC, NewsNation, Schwab Network, The Information, New Constructs, TechCrunch, Yahoo Finance, Dwarkesh Patel, WSB-TV, CNBC International, Reuters, Meta, OpenAI, Anthropic) used briefly, muted, for commentary and news under fair use. QuikTrip and RaceTrac footage from their own channels. Logos are trademarks of their owners. Jah 7.0 launch film and KiyomiKode Desktop footage: RMDW. #AI #Anthropic #IPO #OpenSourceAI #Jah
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