The difference between OpenAI and Anthropic has never been clearer. OpenAI is constantly in the news with a new consumer app or feature, and is being billed as the next great consumer tech platform. Most recently it made news by offering a social network around its Sora image generator, and even says it plans to allow NSFW content on ChatGPT. Anthropic, meanwhile, has chosen a different path. The company stresses that because it gets most of its revenues from businesses and developers, it’s not trying to capture the mass market, and it’s not terribly concerned about how long users spend on its platform every day.
“We are interested in our consumer users to the degree they are doing work, solving problems in their life,” says Anthropic design chief Joel Lewenstein during an interview with Fast Company this week. “Because we’re not interested in passive consumption and image generation and video generation—we just sort of have ruled those out from a mission perspective . . .”
