Anthropic literally has an astroturfing program:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47945021

Manufactured hype is just marketing. And companies losing money and looking to get listed very soon absolutely need it.

it does tho is the thing, like if someone is fine with using a non-SOTA model then no, but those people are probably happy with deepseek or something cheap like that, if you feel you need to be on the absolutely frontier of commercially available that's OpenAI right now, they need to convince those people they are not too far behind if they are still only using Opus or enroll them onto Mythos.

That’s how marketing works.

If you think they can survive without hype, you are the naive one

I don't know about that. Zig's bdfl got significant mainstream press attention for his anti-LLM stance. Definitely enough attention for various LLM vendors to notice.

At this point one should just say Anthropic team. I can't think of a Bun team since Anthropic bought Bun.

Jared, the hacker is now replaced by Jared, the millionaire soon to be billionaire as Anthropic valuation keeps going up.