Tech article
Claude’s consumer growth surge continues after Pentagon deal debacle
Publisher description: Claude's app is now seeing more new installs than ChatGPT and is growing its daily active users.
TechCrunch | Mar 6, 2026 | Sarah Perez
Automated excerpt
Claude’s daily active users are on the rise on mobile devices, as are its new app installs, following the company’s fallout with the Pentagon. App intelligence provider Appfigures reports that the U. S. downloads of Claude’s mobile app continue to surpass those of ChatGPT. Claude’s growth put it ahead of other AI apps by daily active users, like Perplexity and Microsoft Copilot, but not other top rivals like ChatGPT.
Selected automatically from source text; not independently written or fact-checked. Read the original for full context.