OpenAI, in Duel With Anthropic, Doubles Down on AI That Writes Software

OpenAI’s ChatGPT has become a multibillion-dollar business in large part because programmers use it to write and check their code, fix bugs and translate code into different programming languages.

Now, facing competition from rival artificial intelligence startup Anthropic, OpenAI is putting more effort into improving the tools it offers for software programming. Some products or features under development aim to make it easier to use OpenAI’s AI for coding tasks inside major code-editing programs like Microsoft’s Visual Studio Code, while others aim to take on bigger software development tasks.