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openai vs anthropic on Hacker News

Across 2007–2026 of Hacker News, openai leads openai vs anthropic with 93,965 mentions to anthropic’s 32,478, peaking in Dec 2023.

Mention-over-time for openai vs anthropic, overlaid across 2007–2026 of Hacker News. Each line is a live date-histogram over ~45M posts and comments, computed with Upstash Redis Search.

openai93,965 mentions, peak Dec 2023anthropic32,478 mentions, peak Feb 2026
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How the lead changed hands

David vs Goliath of the lab era: OpenAI's repeated towers lead from 2023, until a sudden 2026 Anthropic surge pulls level and the lead changes hands.

The stories behind each line

Top openai stories
  1. Open models by OpenAI 2,124 points · 2025
  2. Leaked OpenAI documents reveal aggressive tactics toward former employees 1,791 points · 2024
  3. OpenAI O3 breakthrough high score on ARC-AGI-PUB 1,724 points · 2024
  4. Whisper – open source speech recognition by OpenAI 1,705 points · 2022
Top anthropic stories
  1. Anthropic acquires Bun 2,192 points · 2025
  2. Claude Sonnet 4.5 1,585 points · 2025
  3. Anthropic’s paper smells like bullshit 1,160 points · 2025
  4. Anthropic agrees to pay $1.5B to settle lawsuit with book authors 989 points · 2025

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