{"id":375342,"date":"2026-04-12T02:12:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-12T02:12:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/375342\/"},"modified":"2026-04-12T02:12:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-12T02:12:08","slug":"anthropic-may-soon-pass-openai-on-this-measure-of-ai-business-spending","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/375342\/","title":{"rendered":"Anthropic May Soon Pass OpenAI on This Measure of AI Business Spending"},"content":{"rendered":"

Anthropic<\/a> is close to passing OpenAI<\/a> when it comes to business spending on AI, according to new data. <\/p>\n

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Ramp<\/a>, a finance automation and corporate card issuer, said half of its customers now pay for AI products. Among those customers, 30.6% use Anthropic, up 6.3% from March. <\/p>\n

The gap between Anthropic and OpenAI, which accounts for 35.2% of customers, has narrowed dramatically, according to Ramp.<\/p>\n

“At the current pace, Anthropic is on track to surpass OpenAI within the next two months,” a Ramp spokesperson told Business Insider. “It already leads among early adopters, including VC-backed companies, and in key sectors like software, finance, and professional services.”<\/p>\n

Anthropic currently leads OpenAI in three specific sectors: information, finance and insurance, and personal services. Ramp’s data only provides a snapshot of spending by that company’s customers. However, it’s a useful yardstick for how business adoption of AI is changing over time. <\/p>\n

Advancements in AI have begun to transform several industries. Major companies, including Meta<\/a>, Microsoft<\/a> and Visa<\/a>, have encouraged employees to adopt the tech into their day-to-day work.<\/p>\n

Anthropic’s Claude Code<\/a> has been a huge hit with software engineers and developers, which is likely one of the main drivers behind business spending on the startup’s technology. The company also has top-performing models, according to benchmarking specialist Arena.ai. That likely influences which AI technology businesses choose. <\/p>\n

Data from Ramp showed that funding is a key predictor of whether a business adopts AI. VC-backed businesses have a 80% adoption rate, while companies backed by private-equity firms have a 64% adoption rate. Companies without either have a 45% adoption rate.<\/p>\n

Although Ramp didn’t provide a specific reason for Anthropic’s surge among corporations, the company received an unexpected reputation boost in February when it challenged a deal with the Pentagon<\/a>. That month, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth urged the company to agree with the military’s terms of use for Claude or be blacklisted by the government.<\/p>\n

Anthropic refused, resulting in President Donald Trump<\/a> telling federal agencies to stop using the tech and the Department of Defense designating Anthropic as a supply chain risk<\/a>. OpenAI stepped in to offer its services to the Department of Defense<\/a>.<\/p>\n

In response, some users rallied around Anthropic. Claude temporarily surpassed ChatGPT<\/a> on the App Store, and major tech companies like Microsoft<\/a> showed support.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Anthropic is close to passing OpenAI when it comes to business spending on AI, according to new data.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":375343,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[195832,365,195830,195828,363,364,195833,9741,6852,12695,195831,195834,92777,111,139,69,620,27217,8183,145,195829],"class_list":{"0":"post-375342","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-artificial-intelligence","8":"tag-adoption-rate","9":"tag-ai","10":"tag-ai-business-spending","11":"tag-anthropic-may","12":"tag-artificial-intelligence","13":"tag-artificialintelligence","14":"tag-business-adoption","15":"tag-claude-code","16":"tag-customer","17":"tag-defense","18":"tag-finance-automation","19":"tag-major-company","20":"tag-new-datum","21":"tag-new-zealand","22":"tag-newzealand","23":"tag-nz","24":"tag-openai","25":"tag-ramp","26":"tag-software","27":"tag-technology","28":"tag-vc-backed-company"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375342","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=375342"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375342\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/375343"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=375342"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=375342"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=375342"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}