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The AI industry is growing up and honestly it's a little weird

Christopher Allbritton

@christopherallbritton.com

anthropic: $1B revenue in 6 months, acquired Bun, $200M snowflake deal, IPO incoming

4/12/25, 7:20 pm0 reposts0 likes

Christopher Allbritton

@christopherallbritton.com

4 Dec 2025

openai: "code red" internally, bought a company to monitor their own models

Christopher Allbritton

@christopherallbritton.com

4 Dec 2025

mistral: 675B parameter model, apache 2.0, just ... download it

Christopher Allbritton

@christopherallbritton.com

4 Dec 2025

but the weird one: anthropic confirmed a 11k-word "soul document" describing Claude's values is actual training data. not a prompt. training data. the values are baked in.

Christopher Allbritton

@christopherallbritton.com

4 Dec 2025

I wrote about it all:

open.substack.comThe AI Industry is Growing UpOpenAI declares “code red,” Anthropic heads for IPO, and open-source models close the gap. The chaos of invention is giving way to the cold logic of consolidation.