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Amjad Masad

Amjad Masad

CEO of ReplitWikipedia

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Sep 11, 2026

Alex KantrowitzHOST
35:03
That's how it works.
Alex KantrowitzHOST
35:04
Yeah, I mean, and interestingly, Amjad Masad, the CEO of Replit, was speaking this week about, um, the past warnings, and I think he said something really interesting.
Alex KantrowitzHOST
35:11
He said, uh, "With GPT-2, OpenAI came out and said, 'We've made a model that's so powerful we can't release it to the public,' because it was an open source company, and it was always open sourcing models.
Alex KantrowitzHOST
35:23
If we release it to the public, it's going to wreak havoc on the internet, and we're not going to do that." And Amjad, and, you know, then talked about how-
Nathaniel WhittemoreHOST
20:24
On June 3rd, 2025, Windsurf's Varun Mohan wrote, "With less than five days of notice, Anthropic decided to cut off nearly all of our first-party capacity to Claude 3.x models." This was a point that many brought up with Tom Brown in the comments when he posted about Cursor being a trusted partner of Anthropic since Sana 3.5.
Nathaniel WhittemoreHOST
20:41
Replit CEO Amjad Masad wrote, "Maybe you've changed your ways, but we all remember what you did to Windsurf, which was infinitely nastier." Amjad continued pointing out that it is likely that part of Anthropic's difference of approach here has to do with the fact that they now have a compute relationship with SpaceX AI that is integral to the training of their future models.
Nathaniel WhittemoreHOST
20:59
AI researcher Mehu Mohan writes, "I don't get the hate OpenAI is getting for banning Cursor and how Anthropic is somehow trying to be the good guy here.
Nathaniel WhittemoreHOST
21:05
Anthropic literally did the same thing with Windsurf one year ago and would 100% have done the same with SpaceX AI if Anthropic was not paying a billion dollars per month for compute to them.

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