Stock winners and losers as Anthropic passes OpenAI as hottest AI upstart

Cnbc · Aug 19, 2026 · 613 words · By Tobias Burns

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Anthropic is pulling ahead of OpenAI in the frontier model race, laying the foundations for a new hierarchy of dominance within the rapidly developing artificial intelligence sector.

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What happened

Anthropic is pulling ahead of OpenAI in the frontier model race, laying the foundations for a new hierarchy of dominance within the rapidly developing artificial intelligence sector.

Why it matters

From the first to the second quarter, Anthropic more than doubled its revenue while OpenAI's increased by just 18%, the Wall Street Journal reported Tuesday.

Common ground

OpenAI's operating margins, which were already in the red, also sank lower – a bad sign ahead of a hotly anticipated initial public offering.

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eFinder analyzed this article and checked 7 claims against available evidence, cross-references, web search, and Wikipedia. Here is what the fact-checking layer found.

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Claim 1: “Oracle, which signed a $300 billion cloud computing deal with OpenAI”

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The provided evidence for claim 6 consists of irrelevant Wikipedia entries about the 'Bezirk Höfe' (a district in Switzerland). There is no evidence provided regarding a cloud computing deal between Oracle and OpenAI.

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web search NEUTRAL — Der Bezirk Höfe liegt im Kanton Schwyz und umfasst geographisch die drei Gemeinden Wollerau, Freienbach und Feusisberg. Er grenzt im Norden an den Zürichsee, im Osten an den Bezirk March, im Süden an …
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web search NEUTRAL — Der Bezirk Höfe ist ein Bezirk des Kantons Schwyz in der Schweiz. Der Bezirk besteht aus drei politischen Gemeinden, Bezirkshauptorte sind alternierend Wollerau (2005–2008) und Pfäffikon SZ (2009–2010…
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bezirk_Höfe

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web search NEUTRAL — Höfe District is a district of the canton of Schwyz, Switzerland. The coat of arms of the Höfe is per pale: gules, two lions rampant contourny or; and or, three lions passant gules.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Höfe_District

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Claim 2: “Since the last trading day in April, Oracle stock is down about 12%; CoreWeave is down about 17%; and Broadcom is down about 13%.”

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The provided evidence for claim 3 consists of irrelevant results about AI trading bots, mining pools, weather in Yerevan, and general Wikipedia entries on AI financing. No stock price data for Oracle, CoreWeave, or Broadcom was provided.

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — To finance the build-out of AI data centres during the 2020s, an unprecedented amount of capital has been mobilised in the USA in particular amid a broad competition for global technnological supremac…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AI_build-out_financing

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Cerebras Systems Inc., headquartered in Sunnyvale, California, develops semiconductors, supercomputers, and related software to power artificial intelligence deep-learning applications such as inferen…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cerebras_Systems

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Nasdaq updates the components of the Nasdaq-100 periodically, typically in response to acquisitions, or in conjunction with the annual rebalancing. As of July 2026, 540 companies have been components …
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Historical_components_of_the_N…

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Claim 3: “the $47 billion revenue run rate that the company publicized in May”

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The claim that Anthropic publicized a revenue run rate of $47 billion in May is confirmed by a cross-reference (Nypost) and multiple independent web search results (AOL, and other news reports).

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Anthropic, PBC (stylized as ANTHROP\C) is an American artificial intelligence (AI) public benefit corporation headquartered in San Francisco, California. Its flagship product is Claude, a series of pr…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthropic

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Since January 2026, the United States Department of Defense has conflicted with the artificial intelligence company Anthropic over the use of its products for military purposes and mass domestic surve…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthropic–United_States_Depart…

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Claude Mythos is a series of large language models developed by Anthropic. It is the most powerful series of models in the Claude family. The first model in the series was Claude Mythos Preview. Anthr…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claude_Mythos

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Claim 4: “From the first to the second quarter, Anthropic more than doubled its revenue while OpenAI's increased by just 18%”

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The provided evidence for claim 0 consists of irrelevant search results regarding Instagram shopping buttons, graphics card rankings, and general Wikipedia entries for CoreWeave and Palantir. No data regarding Q1/Q2 revenue growth for Anthropic or OpenAI was found in the provided evidence.

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Palantir Technologies Inc. () is an American publicly traded company that develops data integration and analytics software. Palantir is headquartered in Miami, Florida, and was founded in 2003 by Pete…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — CoreWeave, Inc. is an American artificial intelligence (AI) cloud-computing company based in Livingston, New Jersey. It specializes in providing cloud-based graphics processing unit (GPU) infrastructu…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CoreWeave

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Beginning in the mid-2020s, large language models, including reasoning models, have made increasing progress in generating mathematical proofs at research level. Most such proofs have been conducted u…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_mathematical_discoveri…

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Claim 5: “Anthropic is projecting as much as $200 billion in 2028 revenue”

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Multiple independent web sources report that Anthropic has projected 2028 revenue of approximately $190 billion to $200 billion, citing sources such as Reuters.

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — In cosmology and philosophy of science, the anthropic principle (also known as the observation selection effect) is the proposition that the range of possible observations made about a universe is lim…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthropic_principle

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Claude is a series of large language models (LLMs) developed by American software company Anthropic. Claude was released as an AI-based chatbot in March 2023. It is also used in AI-assisted software d…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claude_(AI)

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Claim 6: “Anthropic gets most of its compute from Google and Amazon, it gets most of its compute on Trainium chips and TPUs, not Nvidia chips”

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Multiple sources confirm that Anthropic uses compute from Google (TPUs) and Amazon (Trainium). While one source mentions they also use Nvidia GPUs, another specifically states they primarily use Amazon and Google chips because they are cheaper than Nvidia's.

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web search NEUTRAL — Anthropic primarily uses Nvidia GPUs, Google TPUs and Amazon’s Tranium chips.
https://observer.com/2026/05/openai-anthropic-cfos-ai-comput…

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web search NEUTRAL — Trainium (training chips): Custom silicon for training large models. Inferentia (inference chips): Optimized for running models in production. AWS as distribution: Already the largest cloud provider. …
https://medium.com/@writertripathi/how-is-claudes-100m-bet-q…

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web search NEUTRAL — Anthropic primarily uses chips made by Amazon and Google, which are cheaper than Nvidia’s products.Anthropic told its investors that the company will increase its revenue by more than double to about …
https://www.ndtv.com/us-markets/anthropic-in-talks-with-micr…

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Claim 7: “Nvidia is up about 10% and Microsoft is up about 18% over the same period.”

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The provided evidence for claim 4 consists of general stock price chart links and Wikipedia entries for Nvidia's architecture, but contains no specific percentage change data for Nvidia or Microsoft over the period since April.

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Nvidia Corporation ( en-VID-ee-ə) is an American multinational technology company headquartered in Santa Clara, California. The company develops graphics processing units (GPUs), systems on chips (SoC…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nvidia

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Blackwell is a graphics processing unit (GPU) microarchitecture developed by Nvidia as the successor to the Hopper and Ada Lovelace microarchitectures. Named after statistician and mathematician Davi…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blackwell_(microarchitecture)

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — This list contains general information about graphics processing units (GPUs) and video cards from Nvidia, based on official specifications. In addition some Nvidia motherboards come with integrated o…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Nvidia_graphics_proces…

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