chatbot monogamy wars: when silicon valley larps as high school

Making it AI official Anthropic vs. ChatGPT: Who ya got? The AI giants behind two of the world’s most popular chatbots, Claude and ChatGPT, have escalated their beef. Now people are picking sides. (It looks like Katy Perry picked Claude Pro … and she liked it.) It could represent a new stage in the AI wars. One where people settle down with one chatbot instead of playing the field. In case you’re out of the loop: Anthropic and the Department of Defense disagreed over the government’s usage of its tech. Anthropic refused to back down. President Donald Trump banned federal agencies from using Anthropic. OpenAI cut a deal with the Pentagon a few hours later. It shows how heated the rivalry between the two startups has gotten. From snarky Super Bowl ads to refusing to hold hands, here’s the history of the Anthropic-OpenAI relationship. Anthropic isn’t shying away from the attention. It streamlined how users can import data from competing chatbots into Claude, which is now topping the App Store chart. A spokesperson told BI, “Every single day last week was an all-time record for Claude sign-ups." If you’re wondering about the differences between the chatbots, we break it all down here. Ultimately, this could mark a new era of chatbot monogamy.