However, OpenAI still maintains its lead, largely due to its first-mover advantage, affordable pricing, and strong developer tooling. OpenAI's lead is also slightly inflated due to many AI model providers adopting its API specification as a standard. Despite this, Anthropic's Claude 3.5 Sonnet model is increasingly being adopted for business-critical functions such as software development and data analysis.
Key takeaways:
- Anthropic has been gaining on OpenAI in recent months, according to data from Vercel's AI SDK toolkit, with a significant increase in the downloads of Anthropic's code library.
- The recent adoption trends for Anthropic can be attributed to their Claude 3.5 Sonnet model, which excels at understanding and generating code.
- Despite Anthropic's growth, OpenAI remains the leader among developers, due to its first-mover advantage, cheap pricing of its GPT-4o-mini AI model, and strong developer tooling and documentation.
- OpenAI's lead is slightly inflated by the download data from Vercel's AI SDK service, as many AI model providers have adopted OpenAI's API specification as a standard, allowing developers to use the same OpenAI code library package but point their apps to different models.