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openai vs anthropic on Hacker News

Across 2007–2026 of Hacker News, openai leads openai vs anthropic with 111,584 mentions to anthropic’s 48,820, peaking in Sep 2026.

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.

openai111,584 mentions, peak Sep 2026anthropic48,820 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. Discovery of a new OpenAI agent message board 2,301 points · 2026
  2. GPT-6 Astra 2,279 points · 2026
  3. Open models by OpenAI 2,124 points · 2025
  4. Leaked OpenAI documents reveal aggressive tactics toward former employees 1,791 points · 2024
Top anthropic stories
  1. Anthropic acquires Bun 2,192 points · 2025
  2. Claude Sonnet 4.5 1,585 points · 2025
  3. Claude Fable 5.1 and Claude Mythos 5.1 1,419 points · 2026
  4. Anthropic’s paper smells like bullshit 1,160 points · 2025

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