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O'Driscoll: Anthropic was naive to dictate safety limits to the Pentagon
“Given that, I think it was naive to try and sell the government at all at the Department of Defense at all.”
Zinman: ChatGPT and Claude won't win enterprise AI orchestration
“I don't think that ChatGPT or Gemini on Tropic are going to do it, because going back to my the second theory that we discussed, you know, of course, you know, people are buying a Tropic Claude, they're buying ChatGPT, but it's not a tool where you work with a…”
Swisher: Anthropic reached $9B ARR while growing 800%
“If you look at Anthropic, right, publicly available numbers, nine billion of ARR growing 800%.”
Lemkin: Anthropic revenue surged to 64% of OpenAI's in 14 months
“Anthropic said it's hundred K customers are up seven X in the last year. So there's not enough time to steal deals. Having said that, going from five percent of OpenAI's revenue to 64% in 14 months, that is stealing budget.”
Cohen: Sierra, OpenAI, and Anthropic Fail at Complex Vertical AI Needs
“There is nothing even remotely closed to what is needed when you go to a complex vertical out there. Okay. And it's definitely not in the kind of Sierra level, but even if you take it to the level of the APIs, If I'm kind of taking an anthropic and an open AI,…”
Junestrand: Anthropic and Gemini will outperform OpenAI in enterprise AI
“I'll bet based on what I've seen in the last sort of three, six months. I think for our type of work, it will either be cloud or Gemini. That is the top model. And it will be dependent on if context window is a very important factor or not. So far it is not be…”
Lemkin: SpaceX, Canva, Databricks, and Anthropic will IPO in 2026
“I think we see four IPOs backloaded next year. SpaceX goes out first. Canva comes out of nowhere second. Databricks does it in the back half of the year because it's just time. Anthropic does it at the end of the year. OpenAI probably should have gone first, b…”
Rory O'Driscoll: Anthropic will reach profitability and IPO while OpenAI faces overcommitment
“I think the difference between Anthropix and OpenAI is, OpenAI has more ambition, perhaps, but it's more likely to just get caught In the middle with commitments it can't meet. Whereas I think Entropic is very sensibly and boringly converging on profitability,…”
Lemkin: Anthropic Solved AI Coding; Cursor and Replit Just Grafted On
“Claude figured that out. Cursor didn't figure this out. Replit and Lovable and Bolt didn't figure it out. I can tell you the story. Claude figured it out. Anthropic, the guys, you know, once they quit OpenAI, they figured it out and everyone grafted on this, i…”
Shlomo: Anthropic has better models and growth trajectory than OpenAI
“Moving faster. They correct something in coding. They're very focused on delivering value to B to B customers of, they don't have the first mover advantage, but I think they have better models. And when they look at their trajectory they're better positioned f…”
Lloyd: Anthropic API Margins Are 60%, OpenAI Margins Are 50%
“Anthropic has a big margin on their API business right now. What I've heard is 60% margin on Anthropic's API. I've heard 50% on OpenAI.”
O'Driscoll: Non-OpenAI and Anthropic AI startups won't raise needed capital
“I don't think it's a monopoly, but I think it's definitely an oligopoly. To be clear. So I think that, yes, the number two at Tropic clearly can. It's a differentiated number two with an overlapping, but strategy, but not, you know, one is winning in consumer,…”
Taneja: Anthropic's enterprise business will be bigger than OpenAI's
“I think their enterprise business I'd argue will be bigger than OpenAI if it already isn't already not having spent that much.”
Lemkin: Kleiner Perkins' $100M Anthropic check is just a logo deal
“You got, you can't walk into the partners and not have anthropic or open AI on the website. It's not enough. Yeah. It's a low, I think it's a logo deal.”
Lemkin: Anthropic and OpenAI face harsher safety backlash than Elon Musk
“Elon Musk can get away with this the most. Just because of who he is. Like, it's unacceptable to have a race, to release a racist model to the, like, there's, this is as unacceptable as it gets. But Sam Altman's going to be fried. Anthropic's going to be fried…”
O'Driscoll: Anthropic's burn dropped from $5B last year to $3B this year
“Seeing the, you know, the strong performance from Antropic in terms of top line growth, and then just looking at the burn, you know, five last year going to three this year.”
Osika: OpenAI has lost all of its best talent to Anthropic
“OpenAI lost all their best talent to Anthropic”
Osika: Buy Grok for business execution, short OpenAI on talent drain
“So I would buy Grok. I think they're also very ruthless in like finding business opportunities. We'll, we'll see about that, but I feel like they could be good at that. Even though Anthropic is my favorite, I love the culture and I love the, like the leadershi…”
Ramaswamy: Anthropic Lags OpenAI Due to Model-Only Focus
“There's a reason why Anthropic hasn't done as well because it operates sort of at The model level. It's all of the additional things that go into ChatGPD that I think has staying power.”
Sivulka: xAI could overtake OpenAI and Anthropic in valuation within two years
“I think XAI is the most undervalued company, and a really spicy take. I actually think XAI might overtake OpenAI and Anthropic in value over the next, you know, 12 to 24 months.”
Shulman: Scaling laws will not solve AI music generation
“For music, It's very different from text, and I think people will very sloppily look at the world of OpenAI and Anthropic and the hyperscalers and say audio is just a couple years behind, which it is, but that scale is gonna solve all these things. But unlike …”
Srinivas: Anthropic is algorithmically superior to OpenAI
“Anthropic because they're algorithmically a superior company. Like they got whatever open AI got to with lower capital. They have better post training and like things like that.”
Mensch: Cloud investments in AI startups resemble round-tripping
“It looks like around flipping. Yes. I don't know about that deal particularly, but it makes sense from both perspectives.”
Traynor: VC capital in AI startups mostly passes straight to OpenAI
“Giving a dollar to a startup is just a lossy way of giving it to OpenAI or Anthropic or whoever, because, you know, that's who they're basically taking it and shining it up and handing it onto.”
Douwe Kiela: OpenAI and Anthropic are the Lycos and AltaVista of AI
“So if all the stars align, then OpenAI and Anthropic and all of these places, they had this great first generation technology. So they're kind of like the Lycos and Alta Vista of search engines. And the technology we have is more like PageRank. And that would …”
O'Driscoll: Leaking acquisition talks leaves companies shop-spoiled if deals collapse
“That way, once it leaks, even if you leak it to, as the company being acquired to drum up competitive bid, the problem is you've set yourself up for this thing whereby if subsequently the deal doesn't come together, you look a bit, you know, shop spoiled, for …”
Greze: AI wrappers face broken economics paying suppliers 70% margins to compete
“And the problem with the frontier is, I have zero pricing power at the frontier. And I mean, I think this is what happened to Cursor, right, at the end. It's like, you can have huge market share and customers love you and everything, but if you're paying your …”
Salesforce Agreed to Shift Its LLM Spending to Anthropic
“Dario is showing up because Mark agreed to move Salesforce agreed to move
Their LLM spend to Anthropic.”
Lemkin: Cognition will never catch Anthropic but needs $5B-$10B ARR
“It's never going to catch anthropic unless, unless the world changes, which it has every, every single week. But unless the world changes, it's not, and it doesn't need to catch them. Just five to ten billion a year a few years out is enough to make cognition …”
Reyes: OpenAI and Anthropic face existential risk from data center debt
“If you're open AI or you're anthropic, the hundreds of billions in free cash flow that you need in order to pay back the debt that you're taking on in order to accommodate these data center build outs in order to get the next big training run, it's totally exi…”
Lemkin: Selling subsidized consumer AI tokens is history's worst business model
“It's a crappy business that consumers selling 10,000 dollars worth of tokens for 200 dollars is one of the worst business models of our lifetimes, right? If that was the only business, these guys would be dead in the water. It's a pretty bad business.”
Murdock: Mega rounds for Anthropic and OpenAI might actually have been cheap
“And I would argue that it looks like anthropic and open AI, those crazy mega rounds, you know, at a hundred billion, a hundred and fifty billion might actually have been cheap.”
Murdock: Frontier models will not be cannibalized in the short term
“We're going to absolutely see this thing that, you know, Prohibits the cannibalization of frontier models, at least in the short term.”
O'Driscoll: 70-80% of Anthropic valuation relies on AI coding
“Remember, this is the biggest market for AI. Like, 70, 80% of Entropic's trillion-dollar market cap is predicated on this, right?”
O'Driscoll: Anthropic Holds Far Better IPO Timing Position Than OpenAI
“I think it's a far more attractive strategic position to be going out as Entropic in the fall with a, we've been profitable, okay, we're unprofitable again, but we're the winner in the enterprise, then going out next year where maybe the growth rates have star…”
Stebbings: OpenAI and Anthropic Will Reach $1 Trillion to $2 Trillion Valuations
“Both will be trillion dollar plus, potentially close to two trillion.”
Frankel: OpenAI, Anthropic, and SpaceX Are Today's Metas and Googles
“And I think in, you know, OpenAI and Anthropic and SpaceX, we're seeing that already. Like these are the Metas and the Googles of our era, highly likely.”
Frankel: OpenAI and Anthropic Will Eventually Be Disrupted by Chinese Competitors
“That anthropic and open AI are going to be disrupted. It's like unequivocal. Like our whole careers are about disruption. Those platforms never, ever stay forever. Where is it going to come from? Excellent chance it comes from China. It's coming.”
Stebbings: Mega venture platforms will achieve venture returns via massive outcomes
“I think with the outcome expansion that we've seen, cursor at sixty billion trillion dollar companies in a matter of years with OpenAI and Anthropic, you will see
Venture returns with mega platform sizes.”
O'Driscoll: OpenAI and Anthropic drive 70% of Google and AWS compute backlogs
“In other words, because they're 70% of the Google Compute backlog, the 70% of the Amazon backlog.”
Arora: Foundation models will not disrupt Palo Alto Networks' perimeter security
“So when people tell me, oh, OpenAI is going to eat my lunch, or Mythos is going to eat my lunch, guess what? There are no perimeter security scenario, which means I still need to block the bad guy. They need to be the ingredient in my product. They're not goin…”
Stebbings: Claude Design is starting to eat away at Figma
“We see Claude Design has actually really started to eat away at Figma.”
Angelopoulos: Nvidia is probably leading the race to a $10T valuation
“I think it's hard to say not NVIDIA. I think NVIDIA is probably in the lead there.”
Angelopoulos: Going public will exert downward pricing pressure on Anthropic's inference
“And after they go public, the whole world is going to see that, right? Like we're going to see their margins because those are going to be public information. And that's going to exert downward pricing pressure on their inference.”
Angelopoulos: Anthropic currently enjoys "disgustingly high" inference gross margins
“For example, one of the things that's going to happen is that like right now, Anthropic has like disgustingly high growth, gross margins in their inference.”
Angelopoulos: Most global AI inference spend remains on proprietary first-party APIs
“If you look at the whole space of all inference, most of it is still being consumed on first party APIs and on proprietary models. That's why anthropic revenue has been just a total hockey stick. It's not, you know, it's not like they're being completely canni…”