On March 3rd, the tech website TechCrunch reported that it was the first time that the country's economy had been builtOpenAI THE AI COOPERATION WITH THE US DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE HAS PROVOKED ANGER。ChatGPT In the United States, there was a surge in offloading, and a large number of users gave a star evaluation.
According to the Applied Market Intelligence company Sensor Tower, February 28th (Swissday)ChatGPT mobile application single-day unmounting ring surge in US 295%I don't know. By contrast, the average ring discharge rate for ChatGPT was approximately 9% over the past 30 days。
at the same time,After announcing that he would not cooperate with the US Department of Defense, on February 27th, Claude, the U.S.'s single-day downloads rose by 371 TP3T on Friday, and then by 511 TP3T on SaturdayI don't know. Anthropic stated that the parties had not been able to reach consensus on a cooperation clause because of concerns that AI technology would be used to monitor United States citizens and develop a fully autonomous weapons system, as AI currently did not have the capacity to secure such applications。
The data shows that:Many consumers seem to agree with Anthropic's position on this matter.
In addition, ChatGPT downloads were affected by OpenAI's cooperation with the US Department of Defense. On the day after the agreement was made public (Swissday), its United States market had a single-day downfall of 131 TP3T and a further downfall of 51 TP3T on Sunday. On Friday, before the release of the collaboration, the downloads had achieved a ring increase of 141 TP3T。
These rapid changes are also reflected in Claude’s App Store ranking: the application jumped to the top of the USA app store on Saturday and remained in this position until Monday, March 2. Compared to a week ago (22 February 2026), its ranking rose by more than 20 places。
One-star evaluation
This post is part of our special coverage Syria Protests 2011Consumers also expressed their attitude to OpenAI cooperation through application evaluations: the one-star evaluation of ChatGPT surged on Saturdays, 775%, adding 100% on Sundays; the five-star evaluation decreased by 50% over the same period.
The findings of Sensor Tower were also corroborated by other third-party data agencies. Appfigures monitors indicate that Claude's single-day downloads in the United States on Saturday exceeded ChatGPT for the first time and that the application's downloads increased more significantly, with an estimated increase of 88% on Saturday。
According to Appfigures, Claude currently tops the iPhone free application list in six countries outside the United States, including Belgium, Canada, Germany, Luxembourg, Norway and Switzerland。
The third applied market intelligence provider, Similarweb, indicated that Claude had downloaded about 20 times more in the United States in the past week than in January this year, but cautioned that there might be other reasons, not just political ones。