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The Guardian - US
The Guardian - US
Technology
Sanya Mansoor

Anthropic’s AI model Claude gets popularity boost after US military feud

the Claude app listing on a phone
The Claude AI app is seen in the app store on a phone on 16 February in New York City. Photograph: Michael M Santiago/Getty Images

The AI model Claude has surged in popularity after being blacklisted by the Pentagon last week over ethics concerns.

Claude climbed to the No 1 spot on Apple’s chart of top free apps on Saturday in the US – dethroning OpenAI’s ChatGPT, just one day after the Pentagon tapped OpenAI to supply AI to classified military networks. The bot’s app climbed the iPhone app charts in the UK but did not beat out ChatGPT. Claude also raced up the Android charts in the US and UK, though ChatGPT reigned supreme, according to data from Sensor Tower.

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