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In the months since OpenAI issued its “code red” warning—ostensibly intended to galvanize its troops to beat back the increasingly threatening posture of Google—the startup has secured a fresh $122 billion in funding, cracked open the advertising floodgates, and suddenly found itself playing defense against a younger, smaller adversary: Anthropic. Though they are few, OpenAI’s competitors seem to be closing in on all sides.