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… The brief was filed just hours after Anthropic sued the Department of Defense and other federal agencies over the Pentagon’s decision to designate the company a “supply-chain risk.” The sanction, which severely limits Anthropic’s ability to work with military contractors, went into effect after Ant… …
… OpenAI and Anthropic didn’t respond to requests for comment. Several venture capital firms that invested in OpenAI and Anthropic also declined or didn’t respond to requests for comment about why they decided to back both. …
… Anthropic also announced an industry coalition, including competitors like Google, focused on how advances in generative AI across the field will impact cybersecurity. …
… It also puts them in a separate lane of competition from the one that OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, SpaceX, and other deep-pocketed giants are in. …
… But now it has increasingly found itself in direct competition with them as OpenAI’s Codex and Anthropic’s Claude Code have become major lines of their respective businesses. …
… OpenAI and Anthropic have raised tens of billions of dollars more than Cursor, so they can afford to keep spending heavily on customer acquisition though Anthropic is starting to adjust its rate limits for Claude Code subscriptions . …
… But with both Anthropic and OpenAI preparing for IPOs, competition clearly continues regardless of which products are currently on the market. …
… In August 2025, Anthropic blocked OpenAI’s access to its Claude coding models after the company alleged that its terms of service had been violated. More recently, Anthropic cut off xAI from using its AI models for coding as well. …
… Whether Anthropic can maintain that reputation requires it to stay ahead of the competition. Based on the early reactions I’ve seen to OpenAI’s GPT-5.6 Sol, Anthropic has its work cut out for it. …
… Anthropic’s spat with the White House is still unresolved, and some of the company’s own employees are still barred from using its most advanced AI models. …