Anthropic’s Claude rises to No. 2 within the App Retailer following Pentagon dispute

Anthropic’s chatbot Claude appears to have benefited from the eye across the firm’s fraught negotiations with the Pentagon.

As first reported by CNBC, as of Saturday afternoon, Claude is presently ranked quantity two amongst free apps in Apple’s US App Retailer — the primary app is OpenAI’s ChatGPT, and quantity three is Google Gemini.

In accordance with data 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. Its rating has climbed in the previous few days, from sixth on Wednesday to fourth on Thursday to second on Saturday (at this time).

After Anthropic tried to barter for safeguards stopping the Division of Protection from utilizing its AI fashions for mass home surveillance or totally autonomous weapons, President Donald Trump directed federal businesses to cease utilizing all Anthropic merchandise and Secretary of Protection Pete Hegseth mentioned he’s designating the corporate a supply-chain menace.

OpenAI subsequently introduced its personal settlement with the Pentagon, which CEO Sam Altman claimed contains safeguards associated to home surveillance and autonomous weapons.