Anthropic appears to have overtaken OpenAI in the corporations-focused artificial intelligence (AI) market.
According to payment information startup Ramp on the 13th (local time), as of April this year, the adoption rate of Anthropic's AI tools among U.S. corporations was 34.4%, ahead of OpenAI at 32.3%. This is the first time Anthropic has ranked No. 1 by number of corporate customers.
Ara Karajyan, a senior researcher at Ramp, told the IT outlet TechCrunch, "Anthropic is ahead in sectors with high AI adoption such as finance, tech and professional services," and added, "OpenAI still holds an edge in other industries, but the gap has been narrowing quickly in recent months."
Ramp said Anthropic's growth has stood out in the corporations-focused AI market over the past year. In May last year, only 9% of U.S. corporations were paying expense for Anthropic products and services, but the share has risen 26 percentage points (p) over the past year. OpenAI's share fell 1% during the same period.
Karajyan assessed that Anthropic's strategy of focusing on providing tools like "CoWork" to corporate customers has paid off. Following its coding tool "Claude Code," Anthropic early this year released the AI agent "Claude CoWork," which performs multistep tasks on its own, expanding its influence among developers and corporate customers.
Ramp said that while the data was drawn from its own clients and may not credit entry the entire market, the sample includes more than 50,000 corporations, making it sufficiently broad and diverse.