News Update: OpenAI & Anthropic Feud Heats Up

On February 28th, OpenAI announces an agreement with the Department of War. They're publicly telling people that they have the same red lines, the same safety standards as anthropic. Then, according to this article from Bloomberg, Altman tells staff, OpenAI has no say over Pentagon decisions. The fallout from that was pretty quick for OpenAI. Claude capitalized on this fallout and released an easy way to switch to Claude without starting over. So, they were seemingly making it very easy to get rid of your OpenAI account and move over to Claude instead. And well, it worked. Earlier this week, TechCrunch put out this article. Users are ditching Chat GPT for Claude. And guess what happened next? Claude jumped to be the number one most downloaded app in the App Store. Now, prior to this, they'd been like way down. Like, they weren't even in like the top 10. And ChatGpt uninstalls surged by 295%. People were like, "Open AAI, we don't trust you anymore. We're out." Enthropic is on track to generate annual revenue of almost 20 billion, more than doubling its run rate from last year. And then check this out. This is a graph put out by RAMP, where we can see the blue here is all open AI. The orange is Anthropic. On March 4th, the information put out an article from leaked internal company memos from Anthropic. The real reasons the Department of War and the Trump admin do not like us is that we haven't donated to Trump while OpenAI's Greg Brockman have donated a lot. We haven't given dictator style praise to Trump while Sam has. We have supported AI regulation which is against their agenda. We've told the truth about a number of AI policy issues like job displacement and we've actually held our red lines with integrity rather than colluding with them to produce safety theater for the benefit of employees. Now, on March 5th, Anthropic's chief is now back in talks with the Pentagon about an AI deal. But also on March 5th, the Pentagon officially notified Anthropic that it's deemed a supply chain risk. Anthropic does say, "We do not believe this action is legally sound, and we see no choice but to challenge it in court." I don't know much about the law and all the legalities of this, so I can't really speak into this too much, but my gut tells me this supply chain risk designation will probably not stick. But I don't know. I mean, I've been surprised by a lot of this stuff

This story just keeps getting crazier and crazier. If you haven't been keeping up with all of this, I do a quick backstory in my latest AI news video linked here, and go into all the updates in more detail than I can fit into this short video. Check it out. #AI #AInews #pentagon #anthropic #openai