Anthropic might have misplaced out on doing enterprise with the US government, nevertheless it’s gained sufficient reputation to earn the primary spot on the App Retailer’s Top Free Apps leaderboard. On the prime, Claude beat out each ChatGPT and Google Gemini, which respectively sit on the second and third spots on Apple’s free apps charts.
The sudden surge in person downloads is not random. It follows information that President Trump has barred any federal company from utilizing Anthropic’s Claude or different AI instruments after the AI firm refused to concede on sure guardrails. After declining to have its AI fashions be used for mass home surveillance and totally autonomous weapons, Anthropic was additionally threatened with a “supply-chain danger” label by the Division of Protection Secretary Pete Hegseth. The very public spat led to a wave of person assist that lastly allowed Claude to dethrone OpenAI’s ChatGPT on the App Retailer as essentially the most downloaded free app.
Whereas OpenAI has stepped into Anthropic’s sneakers after agreeing to a cope with the Division of Protection, the CEO nonetheless provided up some ideas in regards to the debacle throughout an AMA on X. Though Claude is a competing mannequin, Sam Altman mentioned that Anthropic’s supply-chain danger designation was “a really unhealthy resolution” that he is hoping will get reversed. On prime of that, OpenAI’s CEO referred to as Anthropic’s blacklisting “a particularly scary precedent,” however he is “nonetheless longing for a a lot better decision.”
