
Anthropic Acquires Stainless SDK Startup for $300M
Anthropic has acquired Stainless, the SDK automation startup behind developer tooling used by OpenAI, Google, and Cloudflare, for more than $300 million.
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Anthropic has acquired Stainless, the SDK automation startup behind developer tooling used by OpenAI, Google, and Cloudflare, for more than $300 million.

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Anthropic's fastest and most cost-efficient model, delivering 73.3% on SWE-bench Verified and first-in-family extended thinking and computer use at $1/$5 per million tokens.

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