<p>Data from Mercury (a bank for startups) on client spending on AI providers.</p>
<p>Q4 2022: Anthropic ~22%, OpenAI ~78%<br>
Q4 2025: Anthropic ~52%, OpenAI ~48%<br>
Q1 2026: Anthropic ~67%, OpenAI ~33%</p>
<p>The trend is clear - new startups are increasingly choosing Claude.</p>
<p>Claude Code and Opus 4.5 have become a turning point, and startups are the fastest to adapt to new tools.</p>
<p>#anthropic #openai #ai #startups</p>
