Anthropic Took the Lead in the AI Race. OpenAI Is Catching Up.
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Anthropic Took the Lead in the AI Race. OpenAI Is Catching Up.

B2Upper-intermediateOctober 9, 20268 min
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Earlier this year, Anthropic edged to the front of the AI race thanks to its focus on business and coding products. But now, its chief rival OpenAI is starting to catch up. WSJ finance and technology reporter Angel Au-Yeung joins to explain how the battle for enterprise customers is playing out, and how it might affect the startups efforts to go public. Danny Lewis hosts. Sign up for the WSJ's free Technology newsletter. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of...

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Welcome to Tech News Briefing. It's Friday, October 9th. I'm Danny Lewis for the Wall Street Journal. Anthropic edged to the front of the AI race earlier this year thanks to its focus on business products. Its cutting-edge models and Claude Code tool rapidly became favorites in corporate America. But lately, Anthropic's biggest rival, OpenAI, is gaining ground.

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WSJ Finance and Technology reporter Angel Auyang is here to break down the battle for business customers and why it matters as the startups look to go public. Angel, anthropic was so popular with enterprise customers this spring that Cloud Code frequently went down and it was worried about running out of computing power. What changed to give OpenAI a chance to get back on top?

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There are a number of factors. I mean, the pace of this industry is so crazy that all the changes that have happened in the last couple of months, it really feels like it could could have taken years. And these models were really interesting

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