User exodus from ChatGPT continues as the Sam Altman-led OpenAI continues to lose subscribers. The drop-off that started after the AI company signed a deal with the Pentagon earlier this month with users rushing to rival Claude. Now a report by Fortune, quoting latest data from AI measurement platform Larridin, says that Anthropic’s Claude has experienced a 1,487% surge in usage. As per the data, Claude sessions jumped from 1,112 in mid-January to 17,648 in the second week of March alone – a staggering increase of 1,487%.Even in the workplace, Claude is driving twice the number of sessions in corporate settings, compared to ChatGPT. As per MIT Technology review, the “QuitGPT” movement has gained momentum after picking up steam in January.
What is QuitGPT
QuitGPT is a campaign urging ChatGPT users to cancel their subscriptions, flagging a substantial contribution by OpenAI president Greg Brockman to President Donald Trump’s super PAC MAGA Inc. The campaign also pointed out that the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement, or ICE, uses a résumé screening tool powered by ChatGPT-4. The movement caught momentum after OpenAI signed a deal with the Pentagon, hours after the US Department of Defense blacklisted Anthropic as a “supply-chain risk to national security”. The development then triggered mass exodus with millions of subscribers leaving the platform in 48 hours of the deal.In a related news, OpenAI is offering private equity firms a guaranteed minimum return of 17.5% to join a joint venture focused on deploying its AI tools to businesses, says a Reuters report. The JV, first reported by Bloomberg, is being structured at a pre-money valuation of roughly $10 billion, with firms including TPG, Advent International, Bain Capital and Brookfield Asset Management in discussions to commit around $4 billion combined.
