Anthropic’s latest feud with the Trump admin may actually help it, sales data suggests
Key takeaways
- The AI lab finished May by surpassing Open AI in market share of business spending for the first time, Ramp just revealed.
- This essentially forced Anthropic to pull its latest all-powerful model from the market altogether.
- Although the White House invoked an obscure export control directive when ordering the ban, the exact cause remains unclear.
Why this matters: a development in AI with implications for how people work, create, and decide.
The AI lab finished May by surpassing Open AI in market share of business spending for the first time, Ramp just revealed. It raised $65 billion at a $965 billion valuation (also besting Open AI) at the end of May, then waltzed into June by filing confidential paperwork for an IPO, reportedly on the strength of its first-ever profitable quarter.
Then on Friday, the Trump administration renewed its war on the model maker by sending a letter demanding it ban non-Americans, including Anthropic’s employees, from accessing its state-of-the-art models: the limited-release Mythos 5 and the more guarded version of Mythos released to the public three days earlier, called Fable 5.
This essentially forced Anthropic to pull its latest all-powerful model from the market altogether.