Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei just roasted OpenAI and Google over low heat with a sprinkle of salt.
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman this week declared his company a “Code Red” after Google, one of its major rivals in the AI race, released Gemini 3 to much fanfare. Google announced its own “Code Red” when ChatGPT was launched three years ago.
But Mr. Amodei told Andrew Ross Sorkin on Wednesday at the New York Times Dealbook Summit that his company saw no need to declare such an emergency.
“We’re in a bit of a privileged position where we can continue to grow and continue to develop the model,” he said. Anthropic added that it does not issue a “code red.”
Mr. Amodei said Anthropic’s enthusiasm may be easing a bit, in part because the company is tailoring its products to businesses rather than consumers. “We have increasingly optimized the model to suit the needs of the business,” he said.
Building a model for an enterprise is different from building a consumer-focused model, he said.
“Just focus on different things,” he said. “It will focus less on engagement and more on coding, high-level intellectual activity, and scientific ability.”
The company may have found a niche in enterprise coding, but it’s also starting to look beyond that into finance, biomedical, retail and energy, Amodei said.
Last month, Anthropic released Claude Opus 4.5, the company’s most advanced AI model to date. It comes with improved functionality for generating computer code and workplace documents.
But Anthropic isn’t without some serious competition. Notably, Google and OpenAI both offer workplace and enterprise products. Of course, Google is one of the biggest technology companies on the planet. OpenAI also has more resources at its disposal.
But Amodei is skeptical that companies like Google, OpenAI, and Meta are spending huge sums of money to compete for the top spot in the AI race.
“There is a real dilemma that stems from the uncertainty of how fast economic value will grow,” he said. Antropic is trying to “manage it as responsibly as possible,” he said.
“Some YOLO players turn the dial on their wrist too far,” he says.
Anthropic did not immediately respond to Business Insider’s request for comment.
