Overview
OpenAI and Anthropic represent two distinct philosophies in frontier AI development. OpenAI prioritizes rapid innovation and broad consumer adoption through ChatGPT and multimodal capabilities, while Anthropic emphasizes safety-first development through Constitutional AI and enterprise trust. Both companies have achieved massive scale, with OpenAI leading in revenue (~$20-30B annualized) and consumer market share, while Anthropic grows faster (14X year-over-year) and increasingly dominates enterprise deployments.