Data from the AI compute router OpenRouter indicates that OpenAI’s share of routed requests increased from under 25% to nearly 50% during 2026. This shift reflects a strategic pivot toward enterprise productivity and coding tasks, allowing OpenAI to regain ground against Anthropic in high-volume commercial workloads. For financial institutions, this suggests that market concentration is not stabilizing among multiple leaders but may be re-consolidating around a single dominant provider.
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