The AI industry has a Turing point problem. Not the Turing test โ the chasm. The moment when the technology stops being something that early adopters evangelize and starts being something that the early majority quietly adopts, because it solves a real problem at a price they can accept and through an interface โ as explored in the interface layer wars reshaping consumer tech โ they do not need to configure.
We are at that moment now. And if you map Anthropicโs last eighteen months onto Geoffrey Mooreโs Crossing the Chasm curve, something clarifies that looks muddled when you view it through the lens of the OpenAI rivalry or the developer community drama.
Anthropic has been executing a textbook chasm-crossing playbook โ possibly without fully intending it โ and the April 4 OpenClaw repricing is not a retreat. It is the compute โ as explored in the economics of AI compute infrastructure โ reallocation that funds the crossing.
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Gennaro Cuofano is a CRO and tech executive who has worked in AI since late 2015, starting with bringing NLP, natural-language generation, voice and chatbot products to the marketing industry. His background is in law and finance: he holds a Master's degree in Law and an International MBA with an emphasis on corporate finance (LUISS Business School and the University of San Diego, 2012), and worked as a financial analyst at a real-estate investment firm in San Diego and as an assistant controller. His work focuses on business model strategy, business engineering and, more broadly, structural analysis: how companies make money, read from their own filings. He created FourWeekMBA and leads research there and at The Business Engineer, his newsletter on AI and business strategy, with over 95,000 subscribers and more than 1,000 published analyses. His writing has also appeared on Entrepreneur, HackerNoon and Search Engine People. Find him on LinkedIn and Substack. See how we source.
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