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Sacks: Anthropic on track to become history's most powerful monopoly
“I'm saying something else, which is that unless something about their current trajectory changes, Anthropic will be the most powerful monopoly ever created in human history.”
Baker: Anthropic is profitable and currently generating cash
“Anthropic is generating cash, and like, they kind of, this fact is, I would say, kind of known in the world, and I've actually never really spoken to Anthropic, but it just, you know, it feels like there are enough signals And then if you're to read the tea le…”
Gavin Baker: Anthropic will end the year with over $100B revenue
“They're going to end this year well over a hundred billion.”
Gavin Baker: Anthropic is worth $3 trillion today
“I think Anthropic is worth three trillion dollars today, and it's very important.”
Sacks: Anthropic CEO refused White House request to take down Fable
“They tried to call Anthropic, They tried to call Dario, and there were a number of conversations, and the TLDR of it is Dario refused, meaning refused their request to take down Fable until this jailbreak could be fixed.”
Gurley: Anthropic leaders believe they are midwifing a deity, not writing software
“I don't think they think they're writing software. I think they're midwifing a deity here, and I don't know which one I'm more afraid of, the regulatory capture or the second theory I call the Dr. Frankenstein theory.”
Sacks: Anthropic will reach $100B ARR by end of 2026
“I think it's pretty much a foregone conclusion that they will hit that forecast of Tenex this year, exiting the year, call it roughly a hundred billion of ARR, and now the only question is whether they hit a trillion in twenty-twenty-seven, and we can debate w…”
Sacks claims Anthropic allied politically with AI doomer and NIMBY groups
“Category number three ironically, again, is Anthropic itself. It has allied itself politically with a lot of the Doomer groups, a lot of the NIMBY groups.”
Gerstner: Anthropic could hit $80B-$100B revenue run rate by year-end
“I would not be shocked if you see Anthropic exiting this year at 80 to a hundred billion dollars in revenue.”
Jensen Huang: Dario Amodei's $1T AI revenue forecast is conservative
“I think he, I think he's being very conservative. I believe Dario and Anthropica is going to do way better than that.”
Emil Michael: Sam Altman urged Pentagon not to label Anthropic a supply-chain risk
“He was trying to protect anthropic to his credit. He was like, don't do, don't call him a supply chain risk. That's bad for the industry. Let me, maybe I can negotiate terms that they'll find acceptable.”
Emil Michael: Anthropic exec asked Palantir if AI was used in Maduro raid
“After the Maduro raid, one of their execs called Palantir, who we buy themselves through and asked them was our software used in that raid, which is by the way, classified information.”
Michael: Pentagon feared Anthropic would shut off military systems during crises
“It was really the, you worry, I worried about them shutting off our system at a moment of need or them messing with our system at a moment of need. Those were, we were scared.”
Sacks: OpenAI is pursuing regulatory capture to secure a duopoly moat
“OpenAI, frankly, seems to be running an anthropic slipstream right now from a red capture standpoint. I don't think they're as doomer as anthropic, but they can see the benefit if the federal government effectively creates a moat that, you know, there's huge e…”
Sacks: Anthropic embraces AI doomer warnings to advance regulatory capture strategy
“Fundamentally, They agree with him, and their employees are saying they agree with him, and he's amplifying their message, and frankly, whether they plan this or not, they are happy that he's doing this. Why? Because they like the political outcome that he is …”
Sacks: AI doomer campaigns aim to establish federal AI regulator
“Well, they're creating a very negative perception of AI to further their case for AI regulation. And the end goal here is to create a federal department of AI. They want an AI regulator.”
Sacks: Anthropic faces severe product liability from internal doom warnings
“On the one hand, you're asking public market investors to underwrite your company to a value in the trillions. On the other hand, your own safety lead, not Jacob Cox and the boss who then sort of co-signed his tweet, is saying that your core product is unsolve…”
Sacks: No founder has amplified AI fears more than Dario Amodei
“No company, and you'd have to say, therefore, no founder CEO has done more to promote these fears and pump these fears and amplify these fears than Dario has.”
Sacks: Anthropic Lobbied to Restrict Nvidia's International Chip Sales
“Anthropic has really been behind a lot of the political activity to restrict Nvidia's sales internationally.”
Baker: The overwhelming majority of AI tokens are profitable
“The overwhelming majority of tokens are profitable for everyone in the chain. Everyone. And I think the Anthropic S-one is kind of going to make that clear.”
Sacks: Anthropic surpassed $80B ARR and will beat year-end targets early
“The latest we heard is Anthropic is now over eighty billion of ARR. Started the year at 10. It had forecast a hundred billion as exit ARR for the year, and most people said that that would be impossible to achieve. Now it looks like they're gonna do it with a …”
Sacks: Frontier AI intelligence is now an Anthropic-OpenAI duopoly
“Now we're really down to just anthropic and open AI. So the market for frontier intelligence has become a duopoly.”
Calacanis: Anthropic paid $1.5B in the largest US copyright settlement
“Obviously last week we saw anthropic paid the largest copyright case in us history, 1.5 billion for seven million books. They allegedly pirated authors get 3000 each lawyers got a hundred million for that one”
Calacanis: Major enterprise customers will abandon OpenAI and Anthropic for open-source
“And I'll make this prediction here, that you're going to see some of the major customers Of Anthropic and major customers of OpenAI. I'm talking about the eight and nine figure customers, people spending fifty million, a hundred million a year. They're leaving…”
Sacks: Anthropic shows breathtaking hypocrisy by blocking training on its model output
“It's breathtaking hypocrisy for Anthropic to maintain that it is entitled to train on all the world's output for free, even if the creator objects, but- The one type of output that you're not allowed to train on is their output, even if you pay for it. That is…”
Calacanis: Anthropic is destroying rare books for AI training data
“Anthropic is destroying rare books to get an edge in training data.”
Sacks: Anthropic iterated prompts over 200 times in AI blackmail study
“Remember when Anthropic did the whole blackmail study, you know, where supposedly an agent displayed independent goal-seeking behavior and then blackmail an employee. It turned out that actually they iterated on the prompt over 200 times to get to that result.”
Sacks: Anthropic's proposed open-source AI bans do not solve model distillation
“These proposals to ban open source that are coming from Anthropic. They don't solve the distillation problem.”
Sacks: Anthropic's ARR grew from $10 billion to over $70 billion
“They started the year at ten billion of ARR. They're now over seventy billion of ARR.”
Sacks: Anthropic is seeking regulatory capture and government protection
“Anthropic is guilty of regulatory capture of attempts to seek government protection.”
Calacanis: Margin compression will derail OpenAI and Anthropic IPOs
“I believe that this is going to derail their IPOs. I'm taking it from the top. It's going to derail their IPOs. It's going to be headwinds against it because I think that they're going to have massive margin compression.”
Sacks: Anthropic's SRO support is a stepping stone to FAA-style regulation
“However, I think this is just an opening bid for Anthropic, meaning they'll take this. Thank you very much. This is more regulation than we have today. But that won't be the end of it, right? This will just be the stepping stone to get what Dario has now calle…”
Sacks: Anthropic is principally responsible for state AI regulatory frenzy
“Anthropic was principally responsible for the state regulatory frenzy that is damaging the startup ecosystem.”
Sacks: Anthropic CPO resigned from Figma board days before rival launch
“Anthropic's chief product officer had actually even served on Figma's board and didn't resign until three days before the launch of Claude Design.”
Chamath: OpenAI-backed pro-AI groups beat Anthropic-backed anti-AI groups in key primaries
“In Utah and in New York, there was a couple of very important races where it was essentially anthropic funded anti AI groups, which is again, insane against In some ways, open AI funded pro AI groups and the pro AI groups won.”
Sacks: Biden administration AI policy leaders immediately joined Anthropic
“The leaders of the Biden administration's AI policy, not just one of them, but all of them, went to go work at Anthropic, like, the minute the Biden administration was over.”
Friedberg: Anthropic restrictions force startups and enterprises to Chinese models
“So the restrictions that Anthropic and others are putting upon themselves and upon the industry is forcing a lot of companies to go and get open source Chinese models and run them. We're seeing this across the landscape with startups. We see it with large scal…”
Sacks: Anthropic is hypocritical for hiring Karpathy while warning of recursive AI risk
“You know, last week they published this blog saying that recursive self-improvement could end the world. Therefore we need a pause. What did they do the previous month? They hired Andre Karpathy to run recursive self-improvement. Ananthropic. They're complete …”
Calacanis: Anthropic secretly downgraded users training competing AI models
“If Fable five detects you're doing frontier AI research, in other words, using their model to make a better model, competitive model, they were downgrading you, but they weren't telling you, and this was buried deep in a 319 page documents.”
Chamath: Dario Amodei warns of AI risks to build regulatory moats
“It makes enormous sense for Dario to try to create the boundary conditions for a regulatory moat, because he will be inside of the tent pissing out.”
Sacks: Anthropic ARR reached $44 billion in April 2026
“First, we find out that from January first to March 31st, they grew from Roughly ten billion of ARR to thirty billion, so it tripled. And then in April, if anything, the rate of increase seemed to accelerate. They went from 30 to forty-four billion of ARR.”
Sacks asserts Anthropic lobbied against US-backed Gulf AI data center projects
“In the case of the GCC data centers, Anthropic was adamantly opposed to that, and they were lobbying against it, and they were, again, salting the earth against Those projects.”
Sacks claims Anthropic withheld Mythos AI model due to serving costs
“It's looking more and more like Anthropic could not have offered that model commercially anyway, because it was just too big and expensive and they needed to create space for Opus 4.7.”
Sachs: Anthropic has a pattern of using fear to market products
“These guys, I'm not saying it's not sincere, but they have a proven pattern of using fear as a way to market their new products.”
Sacks: Anthropic has the fastest growing revenue run rate ever seen
“Third, Anthropix revenue run rate is based on what I can tell and what's been publicly released is the fastest growing revenue run rate at scale that I think we've ever seen.”
Chamath: Software sector P/E multiples will contract as AI degrades tech moats
“The tech sector PE is going to shrink faster, in my opinion, than the non-tech PE. And the reason is because as these companies come out, the combination of SpaceX, OpenAI, and Anthropic, all three are baking An AI technology that first and foremost will go af…”
Chamath: OpenAI and Anthropic are both true trillion-dollar companies
“These are trillion dollar companies. They both are, and they both deserve to be.”
Sacks: Anthropic operates a ruthless political smear operation in Washington
“Anthropic may pose is this company that's on the side of the angels, but they've hired a number of very seasoned brass knuckle political operatives in Washington and, you know, members of the Biden administration, Laura Loomer actually just had a piece today o…”