Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei drags OpenAI and Google: ‘We don’t have to do any code reds’

• Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei took a shot at OpenAI and Google.
• OpenAI and Google have both declared "code reds" in reaction to rival product releases.
• Amodei says Anthropic is avoiding the fray by focusing on enterprise AI instead of consumer AI.

Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei just roasted OpenAI and Google on low heat — with a sprinkle of salt.

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman this week declared a "code red" at his company after Google, one of its chief rivals in the AI race, released Gemini 3 to much fanfare. Google had earlier announced its own "code red" when ChatGPT launched three years ago.

Amodei, however, told Andrew Ross Sorkin at The New York Times Dealbook Summit on Wednesday that his company has felt no need to proclaim such emergencies.

"We have a little bit of a privileged position where we can just keep growing and just keep developing our models," he said, adding that Anthropic has issued no "code reds."

Amodei said Anthropic is maybe feeling a little less heat in part because it is tailoring its products more for companies than consumers. "We've optimized our models more and more for the needs of businesses," he said.

Building models for enterprises is different than building consumer-focused ones, he said.

"You just focus on different things," he said. "You focus less on engagement, you focus more on coding, high intellectual activities, scientific ability."

The company may have found a sweet spot in enterprise coding, but Amodei said it's starting to look beyond that to finance, biomedical, retail, and energy.

Anthropic last month released Claude Opus 4.5, which it says is its most advanced AI model yet. It comes with improved features for generating computer code and workplace documents.

Anthropic is not without serious competition, however. Both Google and OpenAI, among others, offer workplace and enterprise products. Google, of course, is one of the biggest tech companies on Earth. And OpenAI has a lot more resources at its disposal, too.

Amodei, however, is skeptical about the huge amounts companies like Google, OpenAI, and Meta are spending as they jockey for the top position in the AI race.

"There's a real dilemma, deriving from uncertainty, in how quickly the economic value is going to grow," he said. Anthropic, he said, is trying to "manage as responsibility as we can."

"There are some players who are YOLO, who pull the wrist dial too far," he said.

Anthropic did not immediately respond to a request for comment from Business Insider.