{"slug": "openai-and-anthropic-face-spending-driven-growth-slowdown", "title": "OpenAI and Anthropic face spending-driven growth slowdown", "summary": "Enterprise customers are tightening AI spending and shifting toward efficiency, potentially slowing revenue growth for OpenAI and Anthropic. Lindy moved 100% of its traffic from Anthropic's Claude to DeepSeek, cutting costs dramatically, while Microsoft, Amazon, and Google offer lower-cost alternatives.", "body_md": "CNBC reports that enterprise customers are tightening AI spending and shifting from \"tokenmaxxing\" toward efficiency, a change that could slow revenue growth for **OpenAI** and **Anthropic**. CNBC cites a D.A. Davidson analyst, Gil Luria, warning that \"some of their largest enterprise customers may start limiting their out-of-control token spend.\" The article profiles Lindy, whose CEO Flo Crivello says the startup moved **100%** of its traffic off Anthropic's Claude models to Chinese provider **DeepSeek**, which Crivello said cut the company's costs dramatically. CNBC also notes that open-source models and efficiency-focused offerings from **Microsoft**, **Amazon**, and **Google** are presenting lower-cost alternatives. Editorial analysis: Industry practitioners should expect cost-per-inference and model-efficiency metrics to become higher-priority procurement criteria.", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/openai-and-anthropic-face-spending-driven-growth-slowdown", "canonical_source": "https://letsdatascience.com/news/openai-and-anthropic-face-spending-driven-growth-slowdown-66455060", "published_at": "2026-06-26 12:10:01+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-06-26 13:39:47.864073+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["ai-products", "ai-infrastructure", "ai-startups", "large-language-models", "ai-tools"], "entities": ["OpenAI", "Anthropic", "DeepSeek", "Microsoft", "Amazon", "Google", "Lindy", "Gil Luria"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/openai-and-anthropic-face-spending-driven-growth-slowdown", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/openai-and-anthropic-face-spending-driven-growth-slowdown.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/openai-and-anthropic-face-spending-driven-growth-slowdown.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/openai-and-anthropic-face-spending-driven-growth-slowdown.jsonld"}}