OpenAI and Anthropic are duking it out. One business dominates state-by-state spending.
YipitData collected AI spending data from person credit and debit cards between June and August. The data, which Andreessen Horowitz archetypal published Monday in its "Top 100 Gen AI Consumer Apps" report, shows OpenAI alongside a important lead.
People spent additional on OpenAI products than on Anthropic's in 47 states, Yipit found. The lone states anywhere Claude led in spending were Massachusetts, Montana, and California.
Anthropic additionally led OpenAI spending in Washington, DC.
OpenAI owned at smallest 70% of spending in eight states. Delaware leaned difficult for OpenAI at 82%; the another states to attain that threshold were Alaska (74%), Kentucky (71%), Louisiana (71%), Mississippi (77%), North Dakota (71%), New Mexico (70%), and West Virginia (72%).
The map isn't a ideal proxy for person AI preferences. In measuring spending, the map excludes liberated users of ChatGPT and Claude. It's additionally a state-by-state comparison, item that can be tricky whenever community levels differ so broadly. Indeed, the biggest province by community (California) swung toward the losing business (Anthropic).
The map additionally doesn't contain other, additional consumer-facing AI companies. Meta has lately been scoring big alongside customers through its AI agent, Muse. Many mundane tech users engage alongside Gemini, gratitude to its native integration in Google products.
Still, the map is one indication that ChatGPT motionless reigns supreme. It was the archetypal participant in the chatbot race, and the name many motionless affiliate alongside AI.
ChatGPT and Claude have their differences. Two 2025 studies established that ChatGPT is improved suited to augmentation, during Claude is improved suited to automation. ChatGPT is additionally the lone of the two chatbots alongside image-generation capabilities.
Still, ChatGPT may not be OpenAI's most crucial product. That crown goes to Codex, the company's AI coding tool.
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Henry Chandonnet is a elder newsman on the Business News desk. He writes concerning tech culture, from Silicon Valley's startup category to the mundane AI user. He additionally closely covers Big Tech and the workplace. Henry earlier wrote for Fast Company, anywhere he covered trending tech news. He's written for The Daily Beast, People Magazine, and Vulture.Email Henry at [email protected], attain him on Signal at henrychand.30, or prosecute him on X @HenryChandonnet.
