Anthropic’s Claude grabs prime spot in App Retailer after Trump’s ban

Anthropic could have misplaced out on doing enterprise with the US government, however it’s gained sufficient reputation to earn the primary spot on the App Retailer’s Top Free Apps leaderboard. On the prime, Claude beat out each ChatGPT and Google Gemini, which respectively sit on the second and third spots on Apple’s free apps charts.

The sudden surge in person downloads is not random. It follows information that President Trump has barred any federal company from utilizing Anthropic’s Claude or different AI instruments after the AI firm refused to concede on sure guardrails. After declining to have its AI fashions be used for mass home surveillance and totally autonomous weapons, Anthropic was additionally threatened with a “supply-chain danger” label by the Division of Protection Secretary Pete Hegseth. The very public spat led to a wave of person assist that lastly allowed Claude to dethrone OpenAI’s ChatGPT on the App Retailer as probably the most downloaded free app.

Whereas OpenAI has stepped into Anthropic’s footwear after agreeing to a take care of the Division of Protection, the CEO nonetheless supplied up some ideas in regards to the debacle throughout an AMA on X. Despite the fact that Claude is a competing mannequin, Sam Altman stated that Anthropic’s supply-chain danger designation was “a really dangerous choice” that he is hoping will get reversed. On prime of that, OpenAI’s CEO known as Anthropic’s blacklisting “an especially scary precedent,” however he is “nonetheless eager for a a lot better decision.”