OpenAI has released six financial and legal plugins hard competing with Anthropic enterprise clients, rekindling the battle.

OpenAI is aggressively expanding the capabilities of its AI programming agent Codex in professional fields such as finance and law, in order to gain an advantage in the competition for enterprise customers with Anthropic. The two companies are not only competing head-on in vertical industry products, but also entering a fierce competition in the IPO market - Anthropic has secretly filed for an IPO valuation of about $96.5 billion, surpassing OpenAI, leading to a comprehensive upgrade of the "AI showdown" spanning products, valuations, and IPO timelines. On Tuesday, OpenAI held a conference titled "AI on the Job", unveiling six Codex role-specific plugins for different job positions, covering stock investment in public companies, investment banking, data analysis, creative production, sales, and product design. Each plugin bundles the skills, commands, and workflows required for the relevant work, with a total of 110 skills and connectivity to 62 external applications. OpenAI also announced at the conference that in the coming weeks, Codex will be integrated into its flagship product ChatGPT, providing intelligent capabilities to its vast user base. Each plugin adapts its underlying large language model to specific tasks for each role and features an "annotation" function that allows users to optimize AI output directly in place without regenerating prompts. For example: - Public company stock investment plugin: Allows users to review financial reports, compare metrics across companies, track market signals, and assess investment logic using professional data sources such as Moody's, FactSet, S&P Global, and PitchBook to assist investment decisions. - Investment banking plugin: Aimed at investment banking professionals, helps create pitch materials, analyze comparable companies and transaction cases, and form client solutions based on due diligence results. - Sales plugin: Native integration with ZoomInfo's GTM.AI context map allows sales teams to access validated B2B data covering 100 million companies and 500 million contacts through natural language commands. A spokesperson for OpenAI stated, "Codex is evolving from a developer tool into a platform that serves every role in the enterprise." The company also revealed that it will add plugins for legal and corporate finance in the coming months. AI Giants Navigating Enterprise Customer Battle OpenAI and Anthropic are engaged in intense competition, aiming to persuade a broader range of enterprises to pay for their AI services. At the same time, both companies are striving to go public by the end of this year. By selling more advanced AI tools to simplify software development processes, both companies have gained momentum - this field has become a high-profit market for AI technology. OpenAI stated that Codex, launched last year, now has over 5 million weekly active users, with about 20% of users not being developers. This release of Codex plugins for finance, sales, and other fields by OpenAI directly targets the vertical markets that Anthropic has been cultivating. Anthropic previously released agents and plugins for financial services and legal tasks, causing some impact on traditional software market investors. In February this year, Anthropic introduced the Enterprise Agents program for enterprises, covering scenarios in finance, engineering, and design; in May, Anthropic further launched 10 AI agent templates for the financial services industry, covering tasks such as pitch material creation, financial statement review, and compliance alerts, integrating Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook, as well as information from financial industry data partners such as Moody's and Dun & Bradstreet. Unlike Anthropic, which initially focused on the enterprise market from the beginning, OpenAI started out as a consumer-facing service. However, this landscape is changing. OpenAI's Chief Revenue Officer Denise Dreyer previously revealed that enterprise business revenue currently accounts for over 40% of the company's total revenue, with the goal of having enterprise customers contribute half of the revenue by the end of this year. Parallel to the competition for enterprise customers is a frenzied IPO race engulfing the entire AI industry. On June 1st, Anthropic announced the secret submission of an IPO registration statement to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, with a post-investment valuation of about $96.5 billion, putting competitor OpenAI ($85.2 billion) behind and taking the lead in the IPO race. In contrast, OpenAI has not yet publicly submitted an S-1 filing, but reportedly is preparing a secret submission of the registration statement, with a goal of going public as early as September 2026 with joint underwriters Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley. With three mega IPOs from OpenAI, Anthropic, and SpaceX expected to debut around the same time, they will undergo a severe stress test on the capital market's fund-absorbing capacity.