Anthropic's Claude claws its way towards the top of the AI market

Anthropic has been killing it in the business market, success that appears to be at least partially attributable to pushback against the Pentagon.

The maker of the Claude family of models saw business software subscriptions grow 4.9 percent month over month in February, according to AI fintech biz Ramp, a period during which OpenAI's subscription share fell 1.5 percent.

In January, Anthropic's subscription share grew 2.8 percentage points while OpenAI adoption slipped 0.9 percentage points, the company said.

OpenAI still leads in overall business subscription market share, 34.4 percent to 24.4 percent, but Anthropic has been catching up fast.

"Nearly one in four businesses on Ramp now pays for Anthropic (a year ago, it was one in 25)," said Ara Kharazian, an economist for Ramp, in a blog post. "OpenAI's 1.5 percent decline was the largest in any single month ...