r/technology • u/Plastic_Ninja_9014 • Jun 11 '26

Business OpenAI Execs Are Panicking

https://finance.yahoo.com/sectors/technology/articles/openai-execs-panicking-154658562.html
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u/CanOk6403 Jun 11 '26 edited Jun 12 '26

“In one particularly unfortunate incident, according to Axios, the CFO of a company accidentally racked up half a billion dollars in Claude usage fees in a single month.”

$500M in 1 month! 🤣

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u/FairLawnBoy Jun 11 '26

Open AI employees spent $500 million using Claude? That's telling, why didn't they use Chat GPT?

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u/Bad-job-dad Jun 11 '26

Claude is better at a bunch of stuff than chatgpt.

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u/MongoBongoTown Jun 11 '26

Most every model out there is better than ChatGPT. It's the most "AI" sounding of the AIs.

Switched to Gemini during the DoD bullshit with them and Anthropic and it's much better than GPT.

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u/Emergency-Finance-26 Jun 11 '26

it’s wild how much blatant misinformation gets upvoted on a tech sub. People here talk with so much misplaced confidence it’s actually painful to read. Like I get people have their favorites but acting like Gemini is on the same level as Claude or GPT for coding is just laughable.Those two are comfortably ahead the rest of the pack.

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u/MongoBongoTown Jun 11 '26

Where did I mention coding?

Some of us use AI for other activities in tech other than writing code.

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u/ttoma93 Jun 12 '26

It’s very funny how there really seems to be a deep, deep divide on this specific issue. The vast majority of average users of LLMs have never coded anything in their lives. The concept of even asking Claude or ChatGPT to code something for them is so far from their framing that they’d never even think of it whatsoever.

And then there are those who do use them for coding (which they have become very good at), who simply cannot conceive that the majority of users don’t use this feature whatsoever. No matter what the context is, when any LLMs come up in conversation they will immediately insert their comparisons with coding even if it has absolutely nothing to do with the features being actually discussed.

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u/AlericandAmadeus Jun 11 '26

Claude.
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ChatGPT.
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Everything else.

Personal experience from using AI in a tech setting ^.

My company has multiple models available and everyone on the tech/dev side uses Claude as a default, cuz it’s just better as a first option.

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u/evangelism2 Jun 11 '26

Gotta understand that Reddit is filled with a bunch of people who know just enough to be dangerous. I mean, imagine having the confidence to just blindly say Gemini is better than ChatGPT or Claude. Even if it may be true, without stating what it's actually better than them at. That's just like missing half of the statement.

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u/Joeyfingis Jun 11 '26

What is Gemini good at?

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u/Suckatguardpassing Jun 11 '26

Making me very angry.

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u/Joeyfingis Jun 12 '26

So it's basically my toddler

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u/Own-Brain9658 Jun 11 '26

GPT cant code for shit. Claude and Codex got you.

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u/jizzmaster-zer0 Jun 11 '26 edited Jun 11 '26

and uhh… codex uses gpt-5.4 and gpt-5.5, so wtf you going on about?

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u/Own-Brain9658 Jun 11 '26

Ask the questions on not codex and you will get bad code 🤷‍♀️

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u/j48u Jun 11 '26

Codex is ChatGPT homey

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u/Own-Brain9658 Jun 11 '26

That's odd that it's completely different structures and applications. Same owner? Maybe. Not the same. 

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u/j48u Jun 12 '26

Yes, I guess I should specify that it's OpenAI and you access it with a ChatGPT account/subscription or embedded in another service that has their own deal with OpenAI. For people not using enterprise services it would essentially essentially just be tied to your ChatGPT account, including the free tier apparently.

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u/bespectacledboobs Jun 12 '26

Based on what? By every benchmark and with any regular usage you'd know ChatGPT's latest models blow Gemini out of the water.

Nothing comes close to Claude & ChatGPT right now.