Anthropic Is Less Flashy Than Rival OpenAI, but It May Be Better Business

OpenAI recently inked hundreds of billions of dollars of deals to build data centers filled with chips it hopes will further its AI dominance. But one of its rivals—the Amazon AMZN 1.41%increase; green up pointing triangle-backed developer Anthropic—has a clearer path to making a sustainable business out of AI.

Anthropic and OpenAI do similar things: They develop advanced AI models upon which chatbots, image generators and a host of other AI tools are based.