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Astra landed a serious punch on Anthropic

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I had a feeling that Astra caused a lot of people to switch from Anthropic to OpenAI. Now the data says exactly that, OpenAI overtook Anthropic in usage and spending . That's great news and especially inconvenient for Anthropic, which wants to do an IPO soon.

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  1. 2026-09-16 12:58 · r/OpenAI
    Astra landed a serious punch on Anthropic
  2. 2026-09-16 12:03 · r/OpenAI
    Astra landed a serious punch on Anthropic

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