This TechCrunch page is timestamped 2026-10-17T18:48:08Z. The byline is 11:48 am PT on 17 October, 02:48 in Beijing on 18 October. The closing note says the article was originally published on 16 October at 2:22 pm PT, then updated with more context on Replit’s partnerships with Anthropic and OpenAI, and the title was changed as well. What is new enough to read now is the material added in that update, not a retelling of Thursday’s stage appearance.

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After Disrupt, Masad clarified that customers can still access Anthropic models on the platform, but that OpenAI’s ChatGPT is now the default. TechCrunch then writes that this shift could significantly reduce Replit’s spend with Anthropic, because most customers stick with the default rather than picking a model themselves. A lower spend is the report’s inference. The verb is could. No amount and no percentage are given. Over the weekend Masad told TechCrunch that Replit remains model agnostic. Users can choose Anthropic’s Claude or other supported models. OpenAI is now the preferred partner for powering Replit Agent, based on performance, economics, and the strength of the partnership. Those are the weekend sentences. The report states a preference and a default. It is not an audited notice that a contract has ended.

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The same article still keeps Thursday’s scene. On stage at TechCrunch Disrupt, Masad said the company is no longer working with Anthropic. A person familiar with the partnership, who asked not to be named, said it was still in place. The report places that objection under the on-stage comments. It does not say this person answered the weekend clarification. The update does not delete the on-stage sentence or the unnamed person’s sentence, and it does not say which one was withdrawn. What the weekend adds, and what this draft can check, is that the default moved to OpenAI and Claude remains selectable. It does not treat a full cutoff as a verified outcome.

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The article also says that before the OpenAI deal, Replit relied on Anthropic’s Claude to run its platform, and that Masad said on stage Replit had until recently been a top-five customer of Anthropic. That is background, not a new ranking published over the weekend. The on-stage remarks about internal and public benchmarks, and the enterprise revenue shares, are still in the updated article. They are not facts added by this update, so they are not repeated here. The report also gives no deadline by which customers must switch models.

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