There's also the AI division of Elon Musk’s newly merged SpaceX and its chatbot, Grok, which is not yet a viable contender for business customers. Musk has long set his sights on OpenAI, which he co-founded and is now suing in a court case set for trial in April.

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman criticized Anthropic's Super Bowl ad campaign, which took a swipe at the ChatGPT maker's decision to bring ads to the platform.

Early social listening data suggests Super Bowl viewers were more buzzed about Anthropic's ad than OpenAI's.

Rising adoption of generative AI models from OpenAI and Anthropic directly affects the major cloud computing platforms.

Feb 7 (Reuters) - Anthropic is spending millions of dollars to air commercials during Sunday night's National Football League championship game to slam rival OpenAI for its plan to sell ads on its ChatGPT chatbot, in one of the biggest public spats between the big artificial-intelligence companies.

OpenAI launched GPT-5.3-Codex as Anthropic released Claude Opus 4.6 in a simultaneous drop that kicks off the AI coding wars, with benchmark claims, enterprise agent ambitions, and cybersecurity safeguards colliding with a Super Bowl-fueled rivalry.

Anthropic’s CEO says intense commercial pressure is testing the company’s safety-first AI mission.

Anthropic Super Bowl ad impact on Claude users: Anthropic's Super Bowl ad, which targeted rival OpenAI, significantly boosted Claude's user engagement. Daily active users surged 11%, propelling the AI platform into the top 10 free apps on the Apple App Store.