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WindSurf says Anthropic is limiting its direct access to its AI models, including the newest

Claude 4 family and the highly popular Claude 3 models, which is a big deal because

Claude is popular with coders, I'm led to believe, quoting TechCratch.

WindSurf CEO Varroon Mohan said in a post on X Tuesday that Anthropic gave WinSurf little notice for this change,

and the startup now has to find other third-party compute providers to run several of Anthropics' most popular AI models on its platform.

We have been very clear to Anthropic that this is not our desire.

We wanted to pay them for the full capacity, said Mohan on X.

We are disappointed by this decision and

short notice, end quote. In a blog post, WinSurf said it has some capacity with third-party

inference providers, but not enough, so this change may create short-term availability issues

for windsurf users trying to access Claude. The decision comes just a few weeks after Anthropic seemed to pass over

WinSurf during the launch of Claude 4, the company's new family of models, which offer industry

leading performance on software engineering tasks. On launch day, WinSurf said it did not receive direct

access from Anthropic to run Claude 4 on its platform and still hasn't. This forced the company

to rely on a workaround that's more

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