
ChatGPT Hits 1B Users - Rivals Grow 10x Faster
ChatGPT crossed 1 billion monthly active users in May - the fastest app in history to hit the mark. But Meta AI is growing at 973% and Claude at 640%, against ChatGPT's own 62%.
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ChatGPT crossed 1 billion monthly active users in May - the fastest app in history to hit the mark. But Meta AI is growing at 973% and Claude at 640%, against ChatGPT's own 62%.

Anthropic commits $150 million to place 1,000 AI-trained fellows inside US nonprofits for a year at $85,000 each, no degree required.

Broadcom, Apollo, and Blackstone launched the $35B AI XPV Platform on June 9, targeting 20GW of custom AI silicon through 2028 with Anthropic as the anchor customer.

Gemini 2.5 Flash still leads LIT-RAGBench English RAG accuracy at 87.0%, but the full benchmark data reveals two overlooked entries: GPT-4.1-mini at 84.1% and o4-mini at 83.9%.

Claude Fable 5 delivers the strongest coding and long-context results Anthropic has ever shipped publicly, but its safety classifiers block enough legitimate work to make that power conditional.

Google drops its entry AI subscription 38% to $4.99, undercutting every US rival and bringing the price war that reshaped India to American consumers.

Claude Fable 5 is Anthropic's first publicly available Mythos-class model, with safety classifiers that fall back to Claude Opus 4.8 for high-risk requests across cybersecurity, biology, and chemistry.

Anthropic opens Mythos-class capabilities to the public with Claude Fable 5 at $10/$50 per million tokens, days after calling for a global AI pause.

Anthropic's Claude Opus 4.8 scores 69.2% on SWE-bench Pro and ships hundreds of parallel subagents in Claude Code, with pricing unchanged at $5 per million input tokens.

Verified June 8: Ministral 3B cheapest at $0.04/MTok, DeepSeek V4 Flash best value at $0.14, Claude Opus 4.8 Fast Mode cut to $10/$50, Mistral Large 3 corrected to $0.50/$1.50.

Anthropic published internal data showing Claude writes 80% of its own codebase - and called for a coordinated global AI pause - four days after filing a $965B IPO.

Senator Bernie Sanders proposes seizing 50% of OpenAI, Anthropic, and xAI stock to fund a federal sovereign wealth fund with government board seats.