After Rejecting the Pentagon, Anthropic Tops Global AI Product Rankings, Many Celebrities Boycott Its Competitor OpenAI

BlockBeats News, March 2. Recently, Anthropic was banned by Trump for refusing the Pentagon's requests for "autonomous weapons" and "mass surveillance," allowing competitor OpenAI to seamlessly take over. OpenAI has since partnered with the US Department of War, replacing Anthropic.

As a result, global tech and cultural figures, including Scarlett Johansson, Musk, and Oscar-winning actress Kate Blanchett, announced a boycott of OpenAI. Hundreds of Google and OpenAI employees even voluntarily signed a petition to support Anthropic's AI ethics baseline against Pentagon use.

Against this backdrop, Claude, under Anthropic, quickly rose to the top of the AI product rankings on the App Store.

In addition to public opinion, this trend is closely related to a feature introduced by Anthropic called "Import Memory." This feature allows users to simply copy a specific prompt to products like ChatGPT, Gemini, etc., to export user memories (such as preferences, habits, and long-term information) stored there, then paste them into Claude's memory settings to complete the migration.