OpenAI Was Losing the Enterprise Market for Six Months. Last Thursday, They Hit Back.
Towards AI
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Generative AI
AI Research
The story of GPT-5.5 isn’t a benchmark sweep. It’s a company in code red, a 17-month gap between real models, and a price hike that signals the end of the cheap-frontier era. For the past six months, the most expensive secret in AI lived on a private Slack channel inside OpenAI. It was a number. Anthropic’s annualized revenue. December 2025: $9B. By March 2026: $30B. That's not a curve. That's a wall going up.