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Ross: Anthropic should open-source older models to counter Chinese AI adoption
“I think that Anthropic should be open sourcing their previous generation in order to get people using them instead of the Chinese models.”
O'Driscoll: Anthropic Could Raise $10B Tomorrow If It Wanted
“My understanding is they were beating people off with a stick on the recent on Tropic round. And if they decided they want another ten billion, it'll be there tomorrow morning. So it's not capital constrained.”
Taneja: Microsoft and OpenAI's partnership is fracturing over colliding ambitions
“Is that an enduring investment? No, obviously now they've gone at odds with each other because there's an ambition that collides between the two companies and so they want to have more choice. They want to have anthropic at the table as well.”
Taneja: Anthropic investors will see better return multiples than OpenAI's
“And that's why the investors there will probably end up doing on a multiple basis better than again, you know, in a world of like what's durable, what's not like they're trending to be, maybe they'll do better. In their MOI than the early investors would in op…”
Taneja: Anthropic could be worth $500B by next year
“So that's half a trillion dollar company, like by the end of next year. I'm not saying that's what it's going to be, but if they hit their numbers, I don't see why that won't happen. Just from, I'm just saying public market comps, like that's what those things…”
Taneja: Anthropic raised at ~20x ARR versus 50-100x for AI peers
“Anthropic this round probably was the cheapest round that got done this year on a multiple spaces. Which company was raising capital at, you know, at 20 times ARR? They're all raising capital at 50 to a hundred times ARR.”
Zhang: Valuation gap between OpenAI and Anthropic will shrink over time
“I don't think that long-term necessarily we'll always see a five X difference between open and anthropic. So I guess, yeah, maybe, maybe if the question is more like, what is spread trade? I think like that, that multiple will shrink. Over time.”
Lemkin: Microsoft shifting default model choice to Anthropic across several products
“Microsoft I think today said they're moving not just parts of office to Anthropic, but that it is the default choice for several other products and that Microsoft today said several months ago, they told their teams to start using cloud code several months ago…”
Stebbings: Decacorn CEOs spend aggressively on AI but switch easily
“The only interesting take I'll take is that I interview, honestly, three to four Dacacorn CEOs every week, and on this topic, two interesting elements, completely price insensitive as to how much they spend on Anthropic, and Claude Code in particular. I was th…”
O'Driscoll: OpenAI and Anthropic No Longer Need Microsoft or Amazon
“In both these cases, the small company won. They got the money, they got the critical mass, they got the credibility, and now they've pulled away. And neither on top of now open AI needs Microsoft or Amazon at this point. They don't need them for money. They d…”
Lemkin: Anthropic Sourced AI Book Training Datasets Directly from Pirate Sites
“They downloaded this from pirate websites. Okay. This wasn't cutting a little bit of a corner. Okay. This wasn't claiming something that wasn't quite open source was, This is literally, guys, we got to get this rocket ship going. I need a trillion books. I'm g…”
O'Driscoll: Anthropic's valuation is 8-9x next year's revenue if growth persists
“The stunning thing with this growth rate, if it persists, big underline, is you're only buying in at eight to nine times next year's revenues if the growth lasts.”
Lemkin: ICONIQ used Statsig acquisition as backdoor to invest in OpenAI
“Iconic rolls over a hundred million into open AI. They're not allowed to invest because they led the anthropic round. Right. So this is the only way they can put nine figures into it because they're soft band or hard band from the round.”
O'Driscoll: Anthropic grew revenue from $100M to $1B in 2024
“They went from a hundred to a billion last year.”
Deeter: Top three LLM companies will raise $100B in six months
“I think the numbers right now, the top three LLMs, if you include you know, Anthropoc, OpenAI, and X in there, ah, are gonna raise a hundred billion dollars in this six month period”
Deeter: Bessemer invested in Anthropic believing it could be a 30x return
“You know, 3.8 X will keep you in business for a long time, but the reason to do it is because you believe it could be a 30 X. And that's the basis of our anthropic investment is we believe that it is a generational company.”
Deeter: Anthropic's revenue growth trajectory is unprecedented in tech history
“Like, when you actually see the anthropic numbers that he's now sharing, and like, this is real, and, you know, their path to billions and billions in revenue, and, you know, really compelling unit economics, I just, we have never seen this in the history of o…”
Deeter: Economics for Anthropic, Perplexity, and Canva Pencil Out
“And I assure you, one of the coolest things about the profile of anthropic and perplexity and Canvan, these businesses is the math actually pencils out.”
Osika: Majority of Lovable's paid usage revenue goes to AI compute
“I don't give you the exact numbers, but if you look at the paid usage, it's majority, it's not everything.”
Osika: Grok has better team morale and trajectory than OpenAI and Anthropic
“I think it's more the slope on the Grok team. They have, they're doing something which I respect a lot, which is to hire missionaries for the data curation part, and they call it AI tutoring. And they I think the morale is much, much better in that team than b…”
Osika: OpenAI will be a bigger competitor to Lovable than Anthropic
“OpenAI is doing that better than Anthropic. So I see them as a more serious competitor in, in, in 12 months.”
O'Driscoll: OpenAI and Anthropic can become $500B-$1T companies without AGI
“I think both of these companies can be plus or minus, you know, half a trillion to trillion dollar companies.”
O'Driscoll: Pure developer tools cannot support a $1T valuation
“I don't think you get to a month of a trillion dollars if you're just selling stuff to developers, which isn't to say I don't think you do extraordinarily well.”
Casado: Google's Gemini 2.5 Beats Anthropic On Price-Performance For Many Uses
“Gemini 2.5 is a great model. It's a great model. And if you actually look at it, you know, on the price performance, I would say in many use cases, the one that I actually use as my standard model, it's better than Anthropic.”
O'Driscoll: Anthropic will not cut off Cursor from model access
“I think it'd be very stupid of Entropic to just cut off a, probably the largest customer at the knees. And I, and the one thing, they're not stupid. So I don't think they will.”
O'Driscoll prefers investing in Anthropic at $100B over OpenAI at $300B
“I think I do Anthropic at a hundred just from a back short-term momentum perspective.”
O'Driscoll: OpenAI and Anthropic are the only AI startups that will survive
“The clear three, the two people who are clearly going to be at the table as startups when this is done are OpenAI and Entropic. It, it's hard to imagine beyond that.”
Chen predicts future will feature multiple competing frontier AGI companies
“How I see a world where there actually will be multiple, multiple, Frontier AI companies, Frontier AGIs, just because every one of them will be able to go in a different direction. Like, you see it already, you see it today playing out already with the differe…”
Wu: Anthropic has quadrupled its revenue since reaching a $60B valuation
“Well, Anthropic has quadrupled their revenue since they were valued at sixty billion, so it seems like a fair one to pick.”
Wu: Private AI foundation labs will far exceed $500B aggregate valuation
“If you add all their valuations today, what is that? Like, 500 B, something like that? I think that's gonna go way up in the next five years.”
O'Driscoll: Meta won't build a major business selling LLaMA APIs
“It's not that they want to open source Lama and make money off it. They won't. It's not that they want to even have an API offering of Lama, something like, you know, a, an anthropic offering that just won't be big.”
Offloading $1B of Anthropic stock in private markets is extremely difficult
“Today I think there's a handful of liquid private companies basically. They're quasi-liquid. But at scale. Small positions, yes. But try to go move a billion dollars of Anthropic.”
O'Driscoll: Four or more venture exits will top $65B in 5-7 years
“If there's not four exits, Above sixty five billion in the next five or seven years, then the people who bought Stripe, SpaceX, Databricks, OpenAI and Antropic are screwed. So I don't think they're screwed. So I think there's going to be, this trend is going t…”
Hacker: Opening an SF satellite office creates a talent drain to local giants
“It creates this internal funnel of your best employees moving from your HQ to Silicon Valley. Which by itself is not a problem. The problem is then they get recruited away by the whatever the hot Silicon Valley company is at the time. You know, like it could b…”
O'Driscoll: Coatue's Retail VC Fund Will Sell by Offering AI Access
“Do I think it'll work and raise capital? Probably it will because the facts are there. The other The other PE vehicles have worked. And then let's get real. You know, at the end, it'll be packaged with some version of this is the only way you can get access to…”
Stebbings: Anthropic and Cursor Venture Investments Would Have Saved FTX
“When you look at FTX, their positions in Anthropic and Cursor actually would have saved them if they had the time to prove that out and they hadn't done the commingling. That would have saved their financial performance with those two investments alone.”
Stebbings: Anthropic's $4B round investors hold only 3.5x to 4x returns
“People who did Anthropic at four billion have got about a three and a half to four X when you combine the dilution and the employee stock payouts.”
Moore: SpaceX, OpenAI, and Anthropic will reach multi-trillion dollar outcomes
“We're talking about going from talking about 30 to fifty billion dollar outcomes to multi-trillion dollar outcomes in the form of SpaceX or OpenAI or Anthropic.”
O'Driscoll: Non-OpenAI foundation model startups have underperformed Anthropic
“If you fast forward three years, all the foundation model companies that weren't populated by people who were at OpenAI haven't done great, and Anthropic that was populated by people that came from OpenAI has done pretty well.”
Nayak: Anthropic Is Surpassing OpenAI in Attracting Top AI Talent
“I would have said OpenAI maybe six months ago, but I think Anthropic is really starting to appeal to a lot more people.”
Singlehurst: Baillie Gifford wouldn't buy OpenAI, Grok, or Anthropic currently
“I think at the moment I would say that I would buy none of them. And it's not because I have a particular, and it's not because I'm critical of those businesses. It's because I don't know what the answer is to enduring competitive advantage at the large langua…”
Biilmann: Bullish on Anthropic due to coding and programming superiority
“Anthropic definitely has really stood out in, in their ability to solve programming and coding style tasks in a way that I think is like I'm very bullish on Anthropic for that reason, because I think that's such a groundbreaking part of what makes LLMs multipl…”
Biilmann: Would buy Anthropic over OpenAI and Grok at current valuations
“I would probably go for Anthropic. It's a really interesting thing from the outside where a lot of their motivation started around these like safety concerns and like, how do we allow the models to not take over the world and so on. And I think after sort of a…”
Osika: Anthropic's enterprise revenue has almost caught up to OpenAI's
“If you look at the enterprise revenue, like, Anthropik is almost caught up to open AI from nothing, from being absolutely dominated”
Krieger: Top AI models will require both human and synthetic data
“So I think it absolutely has to be a mix. And I think the best models will come from that combination of great, like for code it's, you know, being, having good foundational understanding of code and good examples, but then also being able to explore a really …”
Krieger: Creating multi-step task environments is the main AI blocker
“Figuring out how we better either break that down into component parts, which is probably part of the story, but also think about it holistically is the biggest blocker to at least one slice of progress, which is how do models go from being extremely good at e…”
Krieger: Anthropic is focusing on agentic tools, not building an IDE
“So when I think about the coding space and where we can play and add value, it really is on the agentic side. It's not on the ID side.”
Krieger: Anthropic will build general-purpose software, not bespoke vertical AI
“We are going to be building things that are general purpose as a rule with maybe some specialization at the, like, user level, but not at the, I don't anticipate us building a lot of verticalized experiences that are, like, fairly bespoke to a given workflow o…”