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▶ 7:22 · AI Economics & Business Models · Anthropic abandoning low-end tier to move upmarket as open weights compress pricing
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Claude Opus 5 vs ChatGPT 5.6

2026-07-27 · 4 company · 3 thematic
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jeff barr

Leads AI strategy and model evaluation at Clay, a company building AI-powered go-to-market engineering tools. Oversees internal evals, model selection, and migration to open-weight models for production workloads.

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Anthropic abandoning low-end tier to move upmarket as open weights compress pricing
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