OpenAI and Anthropic May Be Rivals, but Investors Aren’t Picking Sides

Key points

• OpenAI and Anthropic have battled for workers, customers, and public attention.
• The rival AI labs have been on opposite sides of policy proposals, and their CEOs were the only ones not to link hands among a dozen industry leaders at a business summit earlier this year.
• But they do have one big area of overlap: their investors.
• About 90 venture capital firms and other money managers have invested in both OpenAI and Anthropic over the past few years, according to a WIRED analysis of data from PitchBook, a platform that tracks startup investments.
• OpenAI shares about 42 percent of its overall investors with Anthropic, according to the data.