OpenAI and Anthropic both offered AI tool freebies on Wednesday. Emma McIntyre/Getty Images, FABRICE COFFRINI/AFP via Getty Images OpenAI and Anthropic are locked in a freebie war. Both companies announced free usage perks for Codex and Claude Code on Wednesday. Money is pouring into AI companies, which need to hook users — especially companies. OpenAI and Anthropic gave their tokenmaxxing fans a midweek pick-me-up. In posts on X published less than an hour apart on Wednesday, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and Claude's developer account both announced expanded access to their coding tools. "Codex is the best AI coding product and we want to make it easy to try," Altman posted on X. He wrote that OpenAI would give companies two months of free Codex usage if they signed up within the next 30 days. Less than an hour later, Anthropic posted that it was increasing Claude Code's weekly limits by 50% until July 13. "Live now for all Pro, Max, Team, and seat-based Enterprise users," Anthropic wrote in the post.…