I have an inkling of a feeling that this generosity is a stunt only to help juice the growth and “story” specifically for the IPO…

Best use the AI subsidies while you can!

Which seems a bit off to me. Can they even ipo right now due to the apple business?

Although I don't think you're wrong. The number of "organic" social media posts I've seen in the past few weeks of the form: 'Wow, Anthropic users are ugly losers...nothing like those handsome openai tiger blood winner sages' is simply too high in my mind for anything other than an ipo prelude.

[Also are altman and musk really fighting on x? Like, that's got to be a sign of some sort of internal stressors right?]