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rival

[rahy-vuhl] / ˈraɪ vəl /






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OpenAI is trying to catch up with its younger rival in the race to win enterprise customers that are paying large amounts of money for AI tools that can improve workplace productivity.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 11, 2026

But again, rival fans will be paying much less.

From BBC • Jun. 10, 2026

Its rival Anthropic has blown past it since December thanks to the wild success of its agentic coding assistant, Claude Code.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 10, 2026

In the past 12 months, Microsoft stock has fallen 13% on fears that OpenAI—and its rival Anthropic—will disrupt the market for Microsoft’s business software.

From Barron's • Jun. 9, 2026

Look magazine wanted to compete against its chief publishing rival, Life, which had paid a half million dollars for the exclusive rights to the story of the Mercury 7 project.

From "Women in Space" by Karen Bush Gibson




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