Anthropic’s chatbot cloud appears to have received attention from the company’s tense negotiations with the Pentagon.
As First reported by CNBCAs of Saturday afternoon, the cloud currently ranks second among free apps in Apple’s US App Store – the number one app is OpenAI’s ChatGPT, and number three is Google Gemini.
according to data from sensortowerClaude was out of the top 100 at the end of January, and has spent most of February in the top 20. Its ranking has moved up over the past few days, from sixth on Wednesday to fourth on Thursday to second on Saturday (today).
After Anthropic attempted to negotiate safeguards preventing the Defense Department from using its AI models for mass domestic surveillance or fully autonomous weapons, President Donald Trump directed federal agencies to stop using all Anthropic products and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said he Declaring a company a supply-chain threat.
Later OpenAI announced its agreement with the PentagonWhose CEO Sam Altman claimed that it includes security measures related to domestic surveillance and autonomous weapons.
