> This feels like a cheap trick to drive users towards Claude Code

How did you come to this conclusion? It’s very much like he remarked: OpenAI acquired Windsurf, OpenAI is Anthropics direct competitor.

It doesn’t make strategic sense to sell Claude to OpenAI. OpenAI could train against Claude weights, or OpenAI can cut out Anthropic at any moment to push their own models.

The partnership isn’t long lasting so it doesn’t make sense to continue it.