Anthropic switched to HTML artifacts from Markdown because they cut rendering...
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Anthropic switched to HTML artifacts from Markdown because they cut rendering costs by 92%, dropping to just $0.08 per 10,000 views. They handle 4.4 million views monthly, and HTML speeds up load times by five times