OpenAI Races to Catch Anthropic's Claude Code as AI Coding Agents Reshape Developer Market

Summary

WIRED reports that Anthropic's Claude Code programming agent has become a major commercial success, now accounting for nearly a fifth of Anthropic's business at more than $2.5 billion in annualized revenue. The product's rapid adoption among developers has positioned Anthropic, founded by former OpenAI employees, as the leader in agentic coding tools — a segment that is quickly becoming one of the most lucrative applications of large language models. OpenAI, despite being the largest and best-f