Anthropic says may compete with application layer startups from “time to time” in “select categories”

Anthropic today offered hope to European AI application layer startups, saying that its primary focus was on being a foundation AI model company, and that it may compete with application startups “from time to time” in “select categories”. The statement by Anthropic comes amid long-standing concern from European AI startups that Anthropic, and other model providers like OpenAI, could launch competing application products and decimate their businesses. The US AI giant behind the Claude chatbot to