Claude’s consumer growth continues after Pentagon controversy

Claude’s daily users are increasingly on mobile devices, as are his new apps, following the company’s initiatives. fall with the Pentagon. After Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei he refused allowing the government to use its AI systems to monitor Americans or use autonomous devices, the AI ​​prototype behind Claude was identified as Supply Chain Risk.

However, Anthropic’s stance made many consumers favor the model, according to the data.

App intelligence provider App icons reports that US downloads of Claude’s mobile app are still ongoing at ChatGPT. The latest figures from March 2 show Claude with 149,00 downloads per day, compared to 124,000 for ChatGPT, the company’s estimates show.

While download statistics provide a window into how many new users are installing the app for the first time, active users provide insight into how many people are actually using it.

In the future, another market intelligence provider, Similar websitefound that the Claude app on iOS and Android devices saw 11.3 million daily users on March 2, up 183% from the beginning of the year when usage was around 4 million, and up from 5 million daily users at the beginning of February.

Claude’s development puts other AI software ahead of everyday users, such as Perplexity and Microsoft Copilot, but not some high-profile competitors such as ChatGPT. This is because Claude began to use the moon more, in terms of time. stories about Anthropic talks with the Pentagon. If this trend continues in March, it could be high.

Of course, ChatGPT still dominates the market with a significant factor, as daily users on March 2 were 250.5 million across iOS and Android.

Similar web also reports that Claude’s internet traffic has increased.

Although it still lags behind other top AI agents in terms of internet traffic, Claude’s internet traffic increased 43% month-on-month in February, and is up 297.7% year-on-year. Some of the growth may be due to ChatGPT, whose online traffic fell by 6.5% month-on-month during the same period. Gemini also saw a slight bump of 2.1%, which is a slower growth than in previous months.

Anthropic itself has been showing Claude’s progress, noting that its AI chatbot is now see more than 1 million subscribers per day One app on the US App Store last weekend – a position you still have. The app is also number 1 in 15 other countries, including Australia, Austria, Belgium, Canada, Finland, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, New Zealand, Norway, Portugal, Singapore, Switzerland, and the UK.

The company also noted that Claude has broken its daily subscription record since early last week, in every country where Claude is available.

The ChatGPT program has been removedright now, they’ve been growing, a previous report found.

Anthropic was contacted for comment, but one was not available at the time of publication.