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Krieger: Anthropic's current product adoption outpaces true product-market fit
“The adoption that we've gotten of our products is ahead of their actual like true Product market fit because they are still the best ways of getting the models. And I don't think that's durable over time.”
Krieger: Anthropic became overly calcified by adopting a large company playbook
“We got too calcified, I think. And like, oh, well, this is on this team's plate versus this team's plate. And oh, you can't get this done this quarter because it's not on this team.”
Krieger: AI Startups Need Domain Knowledge and Proprietary Data for Long-Term Value
“My sense of where it ends up being most valuable to exist is places where you have some differentiated go to market, some differentiated knowledge of some particular industry or some special data that only you have access to ideally two or even three of those …”
Ramaswamy: OpenAI and Anthropic Lead AI; Google Gemini Is Fast Follow
“It's OpenAI and Anthropic that have created the best models on the planet for the last three years. It's not Microsoft. It's not Amazon. It's not Google. It looks like, you know, Gemini is good, but let's face it, it's at best a fast follow.”
Hyatt: We invested in Anthropic because capital isn't the only AI moat
“If we had believed that only capital was going to win, Then we would not have invested in Anthropic, because you know, surely Sam was telling us and everybody else, like, we're going to win the capital game. The capital game is the only way to win, and so ther…”
Sivulka: Switching cloud providers costs startups $10M-$20M, unlike AI models
“I can switch models readily. Like, I think there's even entire businesses now There will be an entire industry of being able to switch models from OpenAI to Anthropic when OpenAI goes down, but just to switch clouds is like, you know, for any, like, substantia…”
Riparbelli: xAI has more asymmetric upside than OpenAI or Anthropic
“I actually think I would do X. I think they're all great companies. I would do X because I think there, there's the most asymmetric upside if Elon delivers what he usually does. And I mean, we've all heard of some of the, like, that data set that he built, lik…”
Dines: Anthropic at $40B valuation has bigger upside than OpenAI at $160B
“Probably anthropic... I think the upside is bigger.”
Podjarny: Anthropic offers better investment value than OpenAI or xAI
“I think I go Anthropic. I feel generally the, it still holds to the quality of the team or maybe you know, the stability of the team and their opportunity to grow. And yeah, the value arbitrage is is still hard.”
Khachab: Anthropic is a better investment than OpenAI due to higher revenue
“So I'm not sure if these numbers are right, but I recently read that Anthropic is more or less doing 60% of the revenue of OpenAI, and they do this with less customers, so they kind of achieve a higher price point, probably. Plus the recent release of computer…”
Kant: Poolside, OpenAI, and Anthropic will rival Big Tech in AI
“What I would like to see and what I think is going to happen is that it's not just Google, Amazon, and Microsoft. It's going to be, you know, an open eye, an anthropic, a poolside, and a set of companies who are able to get that massive escape velocity needed …”
Narayanan: OpenAI focuses on products as researchers depart to Anthropic
“Folks focused on superintelligence didn't feel very welcome at the company, and there has been an exodus of very prominent people, and Anthropic has picked up a lot of them. So it seems like we're seeing a split emerging where OpenAI is more focused on product…”
Srinivas: OpenAI and Anthropic will not get acquired
“I think with OpenAI and Anthropic, the value of the value of those companies is not in the models they have. That is a very first-order approximation. I think the second-order approximation is it's in the machine that's building the machine. That specific grou…”
Srinivas: Competing with OpenAI on base models is a terrible arena
“If there are companies that are working on Foundation model competitor to OpenAI. It is definitely like one of the worst arenas to be part of. Almost like I think there are five men standing today sort of thing. Google, and Anthropic, Meta Mistral, and you can…”
Traynor: Amazon could outright acquire Anthropic to integrate into AWS EC2
“I'd be wary of Amazon. So like I could see Amazon just like Flat up like buying Anthropic and being like, let's just make this part of the EC two cluster.”
Kleinerman: Seven-person startups can match OpenAI and Anthropic for specific uses
“We've seen companies that with Seven employees have creating models that are comparable for some use cases to what OpenAI or Anthropic do.”
Kleinerman: OpenAI and Anthropic are effectively research companies, not software platforms
“Probably the opening eyes and Anthropics are continuing their innovation, which those are effectively research companies.”
Sunak: DeepMind, Anthropic, and OpenAI agreed to grant UK early model access
“We're working with the companies themselves, DeepMind, Anthropic and OpenAI. I'm pleased that they've said that they will give early or priority access to the models.”
Franceschetti: Candidates cross-evaluating Anthropic and Eight Sleep are a red flag
“When people, sometimes it's still happening today that sometimes people say, oh, I'm at the final stage with Anthropic and innate sleep, and to me, that is a really bad red flag, Not even for the salary, but it means you're confused. There is no way that these…”
Franceschetti: Eight Sleep spends millions per month on Claude
“No, it's lower than that, but it's still in the millions.”
O'Driscoll: Holding competing late-stage AI stakes creates no real conflict
“It totally makes sense to be In OpenAI and Antropic at two hundred billion pre each time, you get limited information rights, retroactive information only, and you know, you're just on the cap table, and it's no different than being in two public companies.”
Stebbings: Jason Lemkin burns $15k in tokens on a $299 Anthropic plan
“My friend Jason Lampkin, he obviously pays for, like, Anthropic Pro, whatever it is, two 99, and he spends about 15,000 dollars of tokens. He is the worst customer for Anthropic, but he's on that, like, pro max individual plan.”
Salesforce Spends $6B on Engineering and $300M on Anthropic Annually
“Salesforce spends six billion a year on engineering, and that probably includes QA and all the rest of it, but that's the right comp. And they're going to spend three hundred million dollars this year on Anthropic.”
Katz: AI customers represent less than 12% of ClickHouse's revenue
“The basket of AI companies that's using us in nearly every AI companies built on ClickHouse from Harvey, Sierra, Decagon, Anthropic, OpenAI, et cetera, represents less than 12% of revenue.”
Katz: Anthropic chose ClickHouse after asking Claude for a recommendation
“If you ask Anthropic how they chose to use ClickHouse, they'll tell you they asked Claude, what technology should we use for this specific observability use case? And Claude suggested ClickHouse.”
Katz: ClickHouse's Anthropic spend is up 100x this year
“Our anthropic spend is up a hundred times from what it was at the beginning of the year.”
Katz: Anthropic and OpenAI Outpace Open Weights on Application Harnesses
“Anthropic specifically and open AI have the benefit of being both a model provider and the harness provider that the open weights models right now are behind in.”
Reyes: Dario Amodei's warnings about unregulated AI pose very real threats
“The things that Dario brings up are not only well-intentioned, but there are very real threats from unregulated and dangerous AI.”
O'Driscoll: Anthropic Gross Margins Rose From -91% to +30% in One Year
“Anthropic went from -91 to positive 30 in a year.”
Bek: Sequoia underestimated Anthropic early due to linear thinking
“Yeah, we call that revisiting our priors. It's very important that you update your priors if the environment's changed, and I think it came from the realization that if AI is going to be so transformative, we are just on the foothill of this incredible exponen…”
Murdock: OpenAI and Anthropic Do Not Permit Frontier Model Customization
“What's happening is, is that you can't customize anthropic models or open AI models right now. Not the big frontier models. You're not allowed to do that.”
Stebbings: Anthropic achieved its first quarterly profit on $11.5B in Q2 revenue
“Anthropic turns its first profit on 11 and a half billion dollars of Q two revenue.”
Google Cloud generates 30% operating margins selling compute to Anthropic
“Every dollar of, every piece of compute that you give to Google Cloud turns into 30% operating margins in a day because they can sell it to Entropic.”
Atallah: Closed-weight labs distill models, including Sonnet from Opus
“The closed-weight model labs distill models too, like, you know, Sonnet is, The partially distilled version of Opus and like you, this is how you like make smaller models out of bigger models.”
OpenRouter CEO: Anthropic's paranoia about future AI risks is important
“I think it's important to have somebody who is, Very paranoid about the future and how things are going to shake up. And I appreciate that. Like, I personally appreciate Anthropic's paranoia.”
Atallah: Anthropic launched Claude Design to hook enterprise design teams
“This is my theory behind why like Claude design was strategic. While it's not like a massive amount of revenue for Anthropic, like not probably not a significant amount of revenue. It does get the design team to really care about Anthropic models. And so the c…”
Angelopoulos: Legal AI startups need not fear Anthropic due to differing priorities
“It's like priority number 12 for Anthropic is probably not high enough for Harvey and LaGuardia to be too scared.”
O'Driscoll: Stripe Captures Standard 2.75% Fees Across Leading AI Companies
“They basically signed up all the AI companies that are selling shit online, right? And they shouldn't be getting anything like the money they're probably getting from the open AI and entropics in terms of interchange fees. But who's got time to optimize that s…”
O'Driscoll: New AI Adopters Will Swamp Any Budget Cuts by Heavy Spenders
“And then there's 95% of companies who've barely put their toe in the water. And if even a quarter of them put their toe in the water, the growth from the toe dippers Will swamp the reduction from the token maxes.”
Anthropic matched ChatGPT performance pre-launch using 1/50th of the capital
“All the benchmarks you could see that they were kind of better or at the same level of performances as ChatGPT at the time. And they'd spent like, I don't know, A 50th of the capital.”
Enterprise AI workloads will split across proprietary and open-source models
“So I think, you know, you're going to have the combination of something like that, a family of models from Anthropic, and then a set of open source models and things that you train with your own data, and you're going to look across that whole tapestry and say…”
Menlo Ventures broke its standard investment criteria to back Anthropic
“And I'll, that's, I'll take you back to our investment in, in Anthropic. Like, same thing. It's like, This doesn't really fit. This isn't what we normally do, but wow, if this works, I mean, you got such a special founder in Dario and an amazing market.”
Qiao: Anthropic relies on a single-AGI belief over specialization
“I view Anthropic as a company fully believing AGI.”
O'Driscoll: AI labs pursue life sciences for purpose over market size
“So I think actually people's interest in doing life science is one third TAM expansion and two thirds, shit, I'm putting everyone at a job. The least I can do is keep them alive. I want to do good because I want to have meaning. It's the search for meaning and…”
O'Driscoll: Active CIOs will implement model tiering to control AI spend
“When the pressure on spend is out there, the sentence you said that really resonated with me is every company is going to have an internal tiering. They might all buy it from OpenAI or Anthropic, but every company with a CIO who's half awake It's going to have…”
O'Driscoll: Anthropic could not have been founded in Massachusetts due to non-competes
“I wonder if Anthropa could have been started in Massachusetts. Probably not, right? No, you're exactly right.”
Stebbings: AI developer tools like Cursor remain dramatically underpriced
“So no, I don't at all for Cursor or for any of the dev tools. I think it's still dramatically underpriced. When you look at Mark Benioff spending three hundred million on Anthropic, it's 3.7% of developer salaries. I think that's relatively small.”