Anthropic will win over OpenAI via better/smarter AI regardless of installed base

Anthropic will win over OpenAI via better/smarter AI regardless of installed base | one company went after the installed base and the other went after the smartest AI possible at all costs. And if we look back on it in a year or two and Anthropic does pull ahead and win, we'll say, well, they use the old playbook, the pre-AI playbook, pre pre-AGI playbook, and Enthropic invented the new playbook of the future, which is people are going to switch to you if your AI is better and smarter regardless of the installed base.

Watch events: Anthropic ARR updates quarterly; potential Oct 2026 IPO; OpenAI next funding round; IPO timing; revenue disclosures

one company went after the installed base and the other went after the smartest AI possible at all costs. And if we look back on it in a year or two and Anthropic does pull ahead and win, we'll say, well, they use the old playbook, the pre-AI playbook, pre pre-AGI playbook, and Enthropic invented the new playbook of the future, which is people are going to switch to you if your AI is better and smarter regardless of the installed base.

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