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OpenAI Leads Agent Orchestration, Anthropic Surges in Payments
13 Oct
Summary
- OpenAI leads in agent orchestration platform usage, according to a September survey.
- More businesses pay Anthropic than OpenAI, a separate report indicates.
- Swapping AI models in production apps often requires significant rework.
A September survey by VentureBeat Intelligence reveals that OpenAI's agent orchestration platform is used by 43% of companies, double the 22% using Anthropic's. Despite this lead, a separate report from Ramp suggests Anthropic may be ahead in terms of customer payments. This payment data, however, is specific to businesses using Ramp's platform and may be skewed towards tech-forward smaller companies.
When considering which AI models to adopt, Anthropic's platform is appearing on as many shopping lists as OpenAI's, with 33% of companies considering Anthropic versus 30% for OpenAI. However, replacing AI models within live applications often proves challenging. A significant 62% of companies that swapped models in production experienced performance degradation, often requiring substantial engineering effort to rework or revert the application. Only 19% of these model swaps resulted in minimal engineering work.
In the broader AI infrastructure landscape, cloud providers like Google Cloud (51%) and Microsoft Azure (36%) lead in production usage for AI. For AI models themselves, OpenAI's models are used by 41% of companies, closely followed by Google's Gemini at 39%, and Anthropic's at 15%. Home Depot's CIO noted a hybrid approach, utilizing Google Cloud extensively while integrating models from both OpenAI and Anthropic for specific tasks like code review and generation.
