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title: "Usefulness is often more valuable than intelligence."
url: https://sam-page.com/thinking/usefulness-is-often-more-valuable-than-intelligence
date: 2026-04-13
author: Sam Page
type: Post or article
categories: [Emerging tech and AI]
reading_time: 1 min
summary: "ChatGPT 5.4 tops Opus 4.6 in most benchmarks. But the AI I use to get work done is Claude."
first_published: https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn%3Ali%3Ashare%3A7449414649415950336
---

# Usefulness is often more valuable than intelligence.

ChatGPT 5.4 tops Opus 4.6 in most benchmarks.  
But the AI I use to get work done is Claude.

![](https://sam-page.com/img/thinking/usefulness-is-often-more-valuable-than-intelligence-li1.webp)

Is usefulness more valuable to you?  
Which AI tool did you open first today?

Anthropic just passed OpenAI in revenue. $9B to $30B ARR in four months.  
To put that in context, Anthropic was at $1B in January 2025. By the end of the year, $9B. Then $14B in February. $30B in April. And they're spending 4x less on training than OpenAI.

I'm not surprised.

Cowork has changed how I actually work. It creates documents, builds presentations, researches topics, writes code, works across files. I use it every day and it's become genuinely hard to imagine going back.

ChatGPT is probably the better tool for asking a quick question. But Claude is the one I open when I need to get something done. When you're paying for a tool, that matters.

The enterprise numbers back it up. 80% of Anthropic's revenue comes from business customers. Companies spending over $1M a year doubled from 500 to 1,000 in under two months.