Morris: Anthropic Wins Larger Enterprise API Contracts Than OpenAI
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Stephen Morris, San Francisco Bureau Chief for the Financial Times, compares the enterprise traction and business models of Anthropic and OpenAI.
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“Whereas Anthropica's claw doesn't just doesn't have the same brand recognition, but it has relentlessly gone after what they call enterprise customers, like big businesses, offers them access to their technology through APIs and has longer, bigger, and more visible contracts.”
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