Anthropic’s Claude climbed to the No. 1 spot on Apple’s App Store over the weekend, dethroning ChatGPT just days after OpenAI CEO Sam Altman announced his company had supplanted Anthropic by striking a nine-figure deal with the U.S. Department of War. Before the release of Anthropic’s Super Bowl ads—which took a dig at OpenAI’s move to include ads in ChatGPT—Anthropic was ranked 42nd on Apple’s App Store. Since then it has remained in the top 10 most downloaded apps, but OpenAI’s Pentagon contract may have helped push it into the top spot over the weekend. Claude stood at No. 5, compared with No. 2 for ChatGPT, on the Google Play store as of Monday.

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