AI Model Cloud has surged in popularity after it was blacklisted by the Pentagon last week over ethics concerns.
Cloud leapt to the No. 1 spot on Apple’s chart of top free apps in the US on Saturday – dethrone OpenAI’s ChatGPT, just a day after the Pentagon used OpenAI to supply AI to classified military networks. The bot’s app climbed the iPhone app charts in the UK but could not overtake ChatGPT. According to the data, Cloud also took the lead in the Android charts in the US and UK, although ChatGatee took the top spot. sensor tower.
The cloud and other apps by startup Anthropic suffered an outage early Monday, which the company described as “Unprecedented demand for cloudDuring the last week. More than 1,400 users reported disruptions after 6 a.m. ET, as of 6 p.m. ET. downdetectorAn online platform that monitors service outages. As of 11 a.m. ET, Anthropic said that incident resolved.
Even when the company feuded with the Pentagon, business boomed. “Last week was an all-time record for cloud sign-ups every single day,” the company said in a statement.
Pete Hegseth, US Secretary of Defense, called A major supply-chain threat was created last week when CEO Dario Amodei refused to back down from red lines around the use of his company’s technology for mass surveillance and fully autonomous weapons. Amodei has said that existing AI models are not reliable enough to be used in these weapons and that mass surveillance violates constitutional rights. he also has controversial The federal government’s ability to designate Anthropic a supply chain risk, and so far customers and Pentagon contractors have been advised that their use is unaffected.
The federal government has accused Anthropic of crossing the line with Donald Trump Saying On his Truth Social platform: “The leftist lunatic at Anthropic has made a disastrous mistake in trying to strengthen (the Pentagon), and force them to follow their terms of service instead of our Constitution.” After this, the Trump administration used OpenAI’s Chat GPT for this work.
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman announced Friday that his company has reached a deal with the federal government, just hours after negotiations between the Pentagon and Anthropic failed. He said the military would not use ChatGPT for autonomous killing systems or mass surveillance. But those claims have been doubted by many AI experts, lawyers, tech workers and users Asked Why would the US government abandon its partnership with Anthropic, only to make a deal with OpenAI that has the same security measures it criticized? Some ChatGPT users, including pop singer Katy Perry, announced their switch to Anthropic on social media and urged others to cancel their subscriptions as well.
The company said Anthropic has already had a good start to the year, with free active users increasing by more than 60% and daily signups quadrupling. Cloud’s paid subscribers also more than doubled.
Anthropic has made it easy for new users to switch to the cloud through its memory facilityWhich is available on all payment plans. “With a copy-paste, the cloud updates its memory and picks up where you left off,” the company notes on its website. “The cloud can import what matters, so your first conversation feels like your hundredth.” The step-by-step guide provides a pointer to an AI provider if a user wants to move to the cloud side.
