AI power rankings upended: OpenAI, Google rise as Anthropic falls, Poe report finds

Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More Poe‘s latest usage report shows OpenAI and Google strengthening their positions in key AI categories while Anthropic loses ground and specialized reasoning capabilities emerge as a crucial competitive battleground. According to data released today by Poe, a platform offering access to more than 100 AI models, significant market share shifts occurred across all major AI categories between January and May 2025. The data, drawn from Poe subscribers, provides rare visibility into actual user preferences beyond industry benchmarks. “As a universal gateway to 100+ AI models, Poe has a unique view of usage trends across the ecosystem,” said Nick Huber, Poe’s AI Ecosystem Lead, in an exclusive interview with VentureBeat. “The most surprising things happening right now are rapid innovation (3x the number of releases Jan-May 2025 vs. the same period in 2024), an incre ... Read full article.