At TechCrunch Disrupt, Replit CEO Amjad Masad said OpenAI's ChatGPT is now the default model provider, citing cost, partnership and performance. Masad said customers can still access Anthropic models; insiders familiar with the partnership disputed his onstage comments, saying the partnership remains in place.
Masad said the decision was made for a number of different reasons, including cost. Replit announced a partnership with OpenAI in August, but there was never any indication that it was no longer with Anthropic.
At TechCrunch Disrupt, Replit CEO Amjad Masad described a future of "self-driving companies," where AI agents handle much of the day-to-day work while people focus on higher-level decisions and retain key roles through judgment and taste.