OpenAI, Meta and Their AI Rivals Ramp Up Turf Wars and Partnerships, in Three Charts

You can call 2025 the year of the robot, at least for the major AI companies. While companies such as Anthropic, Meta and xAI filled out their AI hardware and software lineups, nearly everyone started to work on technology for humanoid robots.

The shift to robots says as much about the current competitive landscape in AI as it does about the dream of humanoids running around every factory and household. Nearly every major technology firm offers or is developing a full slate of AI hardware and software.

For a better picture of how AI companies have evolved over the past year, take a look at the second chart below. It shows how nearly all of them improved their position in developing a fuller AI “stack” to capture more revenue through their products or potentially saving money in the long run by gaining more control of their AI training servers, as was the case with OpenAI and Anthropic.