Anthropic filed to go public bigger than OpenAI — and two more shifts for builders

Anthropic filed a confidential IPO at a $965 billion valuation, surpassing OpenAI for the first time after a $65 billion raise. DeepSeek made its 75% price cut on the V4-Pro model permanent, reducing frontier-grade coding costs by roughly 4x. OpenCode surpassed Cursor as the most-used coding agent, reaching over 172,000 GitHub stars.

AI's money is splitting in two right now: valuations are soaring into the trillions, while the cost of actually building keeps crashing. Three things landed for builders — and two of them you can act on today. Here's the 2-minute video version if you want the quick pass first: Anthropic filed a confidential IPO at a 965-billion-dollar valuation , topping OpenAI for the first time after a 65-billion-dollar raise. Why it matters: the labs you pay for every day are heading to the public market. That usually brings pressure on pricing and packaging — so it's worth keeping an eye on what happens to your subscription costs and rate limits. Follow-up to DeepSeek's earlier discounting: it just made the 75% cut on its flagship V4-Pro permanent . Why it matters: frontier-grade coding just got about 4x cheaper, so it's a strong option to route bulk work to. One real caution though — it's a Chinese-origin API , so keep sensitive or proprietary code off it and reserve it for the work where that's not a concern. OpenCode passed Cursor to become the most-used coding agent, with 172K-plus GitHub stars . Why it matters: pair OpenCode free with cheap DeepSeek 87 cents per million and you've got a real dev setup without paying for Claude's or OpenAI's top tiers . That's the practical takeaway from today's two-sided move: the labs are worth a fortune, yet you can build for almost nothing. The money split two ways at once — valuations up, costs down. Watch today's full episode, or catch a new one every day on dani / AI News & Creative.