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Anthropic’s recent Super Bowl commercials, which feature darkly comedic scenarios of users seeking chatbot advice, have driven a sharp rise in the Claude AI app’s popularity. Within days of the ads, Claude jumped from No. 41 to No. 7 on the U.S. App Store, its highest ranking to date. Downloads surged to an estimated 148,000 between Sunday and Tuesday, a 32% increase over the prior three‑day period. The surge coincided with the release of Anthropic’s Opus 4.6 model and a contrast to competitor ChatGPT’s new ad rollout, highlighting Claude’s “no ads” positioning. Weiterlesen

Google's Gemini app has vaulted to the top of the U.S. App Store, displacing OpenAI's ChatGPT after the August launch of its Nano Banana image‑editing model. The new model drove a 45% month‑over‑month jump in downloads, pushing Gemini to #1 on September 12 after briefly holding the #2 spot. On Google Play the app rose to #2, while ChatGPT remains the platform leader. Gemini’s rapid growth has also boosted its revenue, with August earnings soaring to $1.6 million and September on track for a similar haul. The app now boasts tens of millions of new users and hundreds of millions of images shared. Weiterlesen