Claude Wasn't Supposed To Win
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Introduction to AI Landscape
Claude wasn't supposed to win. Three companies today dominate the AI landscape, and two of them have huge advantages. Think about ChatGPT, which has more than 900 million weekly users
Google's AI Dominance
and has raised 122 billion dollars in funding so far. Then there's Google, which perhaps has the deepest research bench in the world when it comes to AI, and a money tree
Introducing Claude
growing in its backyard called Google advertising. And then there's Claude, a chatbot made by a company called Anthropic, which most people barely knew about a few years ago.
Claude's Rapid Rise
But in March 2026, it became the number one app in the US App Store. Today, Anthropic's revenue has jumped from about 9 billion dollars at the end of 2025
Significant Revenue Growth
to more than 30 billion dollars in April 2026. That's crazy growth.