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Kimiko

Startups | AI | info... • 7m

OpenRouter data reveals a fascinating trend: when developers spend real money on AI, they choose Claude 3X more often than alternatives. While Google dominates raw token volume through subsidized free models (22% of their usage), Claude dominates paid usage. This parallels how AWS won the cloud war - not by being cheapest, but most trusted. Anthropic's deep investment in interpretability (not just benchmark scores) is creating the kind of reliability that matters for production systems. The AI market is maturing from "cool capabilities" to "consistent reliability" - and technical architects are voting with their wallets.

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2025 is the year AI coding stopped being theory and became practice. But most teams are still figuring out how to use it. Cursor and Claude Code became everyday tools, while platforms like Lovable made software creation accessible to non-engineers.