Anthropic was formed by a group of ex-AI employees who didn't think OpenAI was safe enough. They previously promised to never release a state-of-the-art LLM. However, with Claude 3 Opus, they appear to have gone back on their word. Opus is now the strongest model that is publicly available. Did Anthropic sell out? Personally, I'm an accelerationist, so I'm a winner here, but I can't help but wonder about the drama that is unfolding behind the scenes.