OpenAI has the smarter model. Anthropic is winning anyway.

Anthropic figured out something OpenAI didn't — and it has nothing to do with the model.

Two charts tell the story.

On Artificial Analysis’s intelligence ranking, OpenAI’s frontier models still beat Claude. They’re ahead by the benchmarks that have defined this industry for three years.

OpenAI’s most capable GPT model outperforms Claude Opus on key benchmarks

On Ramp’s AI Index for May 2026, Anthropic just overtook OpenAI in enterprise spending.