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OpenAI is offering more than twenty thousand veterans and transitioning service members a free year of ChatGPT Plus, as the company positions its AI tools as a bridge to civilian careers. It's a meaningful gesture, though it also quietly expands OpenAI's user base into a community that tends to be highly motivated and technically adaptable.
On the investment side, Anthropic has filed for what could become one of the largest IPOs in recent memory, seeking to raise up to sixty-four billion dollars at a valuation that could reach one point four trillion dollars. That number puts Anthropic in rare company, and raises real questions about whether AI valuations have drifted far ahead of demonstrated returns.
Staying with Anthropic, consulting giant Cognizant has dedicated more than twenty-five thousand professionals to delivering Claude-based services to enterprise clients. That kind of commitment signals that large businesses are moving past experimentation and into full-scale AI deployment, with Anthropic's model increasingly at the center of that shift.
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