Anthropicβs chatbot Claude appears to have benefited from the eye across the firmβs fraught negotiations with the Pentagon.
As first reported by CNBC, Claude has been rising to the highest of the free app rankings in Appleβs US App Retailer. On Saturday night, it overtook OpenAIβs ChatGPT to assert the primary spot, a place that it nonetheless held on Sunday morning.
In line with information from SensorTower, Claude was simply exterior the highest 100 on the finish of January, and has spent most of February someplace within the high 20. Itβs climbed quickly previously few days, from sixth on Wednesday, then fourth on Thursday, then first on Saturday.
An organization spokesperson stated that every day signups have damaged the all-time document every single day this week, free customers have elevated greater than 60% since January, and paid subscribers have greater than doubled this yr.
After Anthropic tried to barter for safeguards stopping the Division of Protection from utilizing its AI fashions for mass home surveillance or absolutely autonomous weapons, President Donald Trump directed federal businesses to cease utilizing all Anthropic merchandise and Secretary of Protection Pete Hegseth stated heβs designating the corporate a supply-chain risk.
OpenAI subsequently introduced its personal settlement with the Pentagon, which CEO Sam Altman claimed consists of safeguards associated to home surveillance and autonomous weapons.
This put up was first revealed on February 28, 2026. It has been up to date to mirror Anthropic reaching No. 1, and to incorporate development numbers from the corporate.
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