The Phantom Model

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A model identifier that shouldn’t exist. A desktop app launched to counter Claude Code. And from the company at the centre of it all — silence. Today: what the loudest weekend in AI reveals about Anthropic’s quietest strategy.

In This Episode

• The Fennec leak — what the Vertex AI error logs actually show, and the 403 vs 404 proof

• The Opus 4.6 surprise sitting alongside Sonnet 5 in Google’s infrastructure

• OpenAI’s Codex desktop app — explicitly positioned against Claude Code

• What the rumoured specs would mean for model pricing and enterprise strategy

• Why Anthropic’s silence is the most telling signal of the weekend

• The Andreessen Horowitz data: 44% enterprise penetration and growing

Referenced Episodes

• EP005: The Enterprise Question — Boris Cherny’s “enterprise AI company” quote

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