Right off the bat, Claude had fewer bugs generating code than ChatGPT. We didn't have any major frustrations with ChatGPT that forced us to switch, but I think one of the promises of AI is to speed up our work, and Claude let us move faster because we spent less time correcting it.
The $200 million it walked away from by refusing the Pentagon's demands may turn out to be the best marketing spend in Silicon Valley for years. Its principled stand has driven a surge in users and supercharged its brand - no small feat for a company that has always bet on enterprise over the masses.
ChatGPT users protested OpenAI's Pentagon contract online in recent days by spreading the message to "Cancel ChatGPT" across Reddit and X. Some users posted guides for deleting ChatGPT accounts and migrating to Claude. Others accused OpenAI of opportunism, pointing out Altman had previously supported Anthropic's stand, before signing the deal Anthropic rejected.