Anthropic Evaluates New AI Model Amid OpenAI's Enterprise Surge and Safety Scrutiny

Anthropic is deliberating the release of a new AI model ahead of its planned October IPO, sources say, as the company faces mounting pressure from OpenAI's rapidly gaining enterprise foothold. The move reflects an internal tension: CEO Dario Amodei recently published an essay calling for slowing AI development progress, yet Anthropic remains locked in intense competition with OpenAI, whose newly released GPT-6 Astra has captured 13% of enterprise AI spending tracked by corporate expense platform Ramp, compared with 8% for Anthropic's Claude Fable.