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Calacanis: Anthropic signed $45B compute rental deal with SpaceX
“Anthropic is paying SpaceX, wait for it, 1.25 billion a month. To rent out Colossus One and parts of Colossus Two. It's a forty five billion dollar deal over three years, fifteen billion a year.”
Gavin Baker: Major tech firms are convinced orbital compute will become reality
“Google, Anthropic, Amazon, NVIDIA. They are all very convinced that orbital compute is going to be reality, and obviously SpaceX is extraordinarily well positioned for that.”
Chamath: SpaceX, Anthropic, and OpenAI IPOs will trigger litany of SPV lawsuits
“By the way, and I will guarantee you this. Once SpaceX goes public, once Anthropic goes public, once OpenAI goes public, you're going to see a litany of these lawsuits back and forth between the purveyors of these SPVs.”
Gerstner: Anthropic matched OpenAI's GAAP revenue in March
“On a gap basis, they're doing about the same revenue as OpenAI in the month of March, okay?”
Gerstner: xAI's Anthropic deal will yield $4B-$5B incremental revenue in 2026
“And so I estimate that this is going to generate in this year an incremental four to five billion dollars of revenue.”
Friedberg: OpenAI has 900 million weekly active users
“Open AI, even if they're not at a billion, they're still at nine hundred million weekly users, which is well ahead of whatever Claude is at.”
Sacks: Anthropic is token-constrained and compute-gating Opus 4.7
“Anthropic is token constrained. It's reducing their ability to serve Mythos, for example. It's causing them to engage in compute gating.”
Chamath: Power bottlenecks will hurt OpenAI and Anthropic, benefiting hyperscalers
“Who will this hurt? It will hurt Anthropic and OpenAI the most. Who will this benefit? It will benefit the hyperscalers, specifically Oracle, Amazon, Meta, Microsoft, and Google.”
Chamath: Anthropic will become a multi-trillion dollar company
“I think Anthropic is a multi-trillion dollar company.”
Friedberg: Consumer AI will be a ChatGPT-Google fight, Anthropic third
“The consumer market looks like it's trending towards a chat GPT slash Google fight for first place and second place, and then probably anthropic in third place, and maybe Elon emerges and takes off enabled by his compute capacity.”
Chamath: OpenAI and Anthropic revenue growth will stall without enough compute
“I think if you play this out, the real problem, again, goes back to Anthropic and OpenAI. If I were them, it is a five alarm fire for them. They more than anybody else needs to get their hands on compute. They need to have LAN PowerShell, but otherwise that re…”
Sacks projects Anthropic will reach 80 to 100 billion this year
“They're going to end this year. At 80 to a hundred billion, at least on the current trajectory.”
Sacks asserts Anthropic revenue is growing 10x compared to OpenAI's 3x
“The open AI growth rate's been around three to four X a year. The anthropic growth rate has been around 10 X a year.”
Calacanis: Anthropic secondary shares trading significantly above $380B valuation
“And in the secondary market, OpenAI is trading lower than the last valuation, and Anthropic is trading significantly above the three hundred eighty billion dollar.”
Calacanis: Anthropic's revenue run rate tops $30 billion
“Anthropics revenue run rate has topped thirty billion with a B.”
Gerstner: Hyperscaler commissions account for single-digit percent of revenue
“I will just tell you that you're talking single digit percentage of total revenue of these companies.”
Huang: Enterprise software firms will resell Anthropic and OpenAI tokens
“I believe every single enterprise software company will also be a reseller, value-added reseller of Anthropics tokens. Value-added reseller of OpenAI.”
Huang: Open source is second in AI usage, Anthropic a distant third
“Open AI is number one, open source is number two, very distant third is Anthropic”
Michael: Anthropic contracts barred kinetic strike planning and satellite movement
“They say you can't use them for, you can't use them to plan a kinetic strike. You can't use their AI model to move a satellite.”
Emil Michael: Anthropic's AI coding lead will disappear in 12 months
“I believe in 12 months codex is not going to be close.”
Friedberg: Anthropic is no longer worth $350 billion
“I don't think that company's worth three hundred fifty billion anymore.”
Michael: Pentagon spent three months negotiating standards with Anthropic before dropping them
“And I was trying to work with them. Why would I spend three months trying to negotiate with them to get to a symbol standard if I would've just said, okay, guys, you're out.”
Emil Michael: Anthropic missed a Pentagon deadline following high-level meeting
“So then that culminated in the Tuesday kind of dramatic meeting with Hexeth and Secretary Hexeth and me and Dario with the Friday deadline that, that got blown.”
Friedberg: Anthropic will eventually reach a $1.5 trillion market cap
“I think Anthropic is a trillion five market cap at the end of the day. Unless this blows them up.”
Emil Michael: Anthropic retains control plane for AWS GovCloud deployed model
“Yeah, so they put their model in AWS GovCloud. And then Palantir serves it from there. And they refresh it. They held the control plane for the model.”
Friedberg: Google will replicate Anthropic Cowork within 90 days
“I will also say that it's only going to take 90 days for Google to flip on a virtual version of co-work.”
Emil Michael: Anthropic became deeply embedded in military workflows
“The number one reason we were having this conversation at all is because they were deeply embedded.”
Sachs: Anthropic has a software engineer job listing paying $570k
“Anthropic right now has a job listing for a software engineer on their website right now for 570,000 dollars.”
Lockmiller: Competitors would quickly absorb compute capacity if OpenAI failed
“Imagine, imagine they did go out of business. The reason they'd go out of business is because some other model company, whether it be, you know, Anthropic or Gemini or Grok, like really blew them out of the water. But if that were to happen, the group that mas…”
Taneja: General Catalyst's Anthropic investment at $60B was last year's cheapest VC deal
“We ended up investing at, you know a eight, nine, ten billion dollar kind of run rate business at sixty billion. That's the cheapest deal that got done last year in venture capital. On a financial basis.”
Taneja: Anthropic's valuation grew to hundreds of billions on real growth
“You look at Anthropic, Which we're also investors in. That goes from sixty billion dollars last year to, you know, a couple hundred billion dollars. So like, and by the way, with good economic progress, these are not pine to sky valuation. They're based on act…”
Taneja: Anthropic and OpenAI could realistically become trillion-dollar companies
“Now we're talking about, can we create trillion dollar companies, right? I mean, that's not a pie in the sky idea with Anthropic and OpenAI and a couple others.”
Calacanis: Big Tech will make a $50B+ AI acquisition in 2026
“For twenty-twenty-six, I think we're going to see some massive M&A. It doesn't matter to me how it occurs, but I do think we're going to see a fifty billion plus deal, and I think it could be, ah, one of the Mac seven, an Apple, a Meta, a Microsoft, or an Amaz…”
Calacanis: Anthropic is beating OpenAI in enterprise revenue
“Anthropic is beating OpenAI in enterprise revenue.”
Palihapitiya: Cursor swapped Anthropic for an open-source Chinese model
“They swapped out Anthropic for an open source Chinese model.”
Baker: Grok 4 performed twice as well as competitors on ARC-AGI II
“And so RKGI-II, it has not seen the questions before, and it did roughly twice as good as, you know, the state-of-the-art Google Open AI and anthropic models.”
Sacks: Former U.S. AI Safety Institute director Elizabeth Kelly joined Anthropic
“Elizabeth Kelly, who was the founding director of the AI Safety Institute in the government, now works at Anthropic.”
Palihapitiya: Anthropic's Claude 3.7 is best in market for code generation
“Its models on code generation, I think, are just exceptional. They're, they are the best in market.”
Sacks: US AI models' final training runs cost tens of millions
“The final training run cost was more in the tens of millions of dollars about nine or 10 months ago. And so, you know, it's not six million versus a billion, okay?”
Reid Hoffman predicts AI scaling asymptotes will not occur until GPT-6
“My guess is the soonest will be GPT-Six and it might not even, it may even be after that, and that's part of what the bet that OpenAI and Anthropic and the hyperscalers are all making, is that that, that return to scale”
Palihapitiya: Anthropic cannot disown whistleblower without sparking staff revolt
“The problem is, is that that is in conflict with a philosophy held by enough of a group of people inside that business that they can't disavow him, Sachs, because then this entire cohort of people will go absolutely bonkers and get up in arms.”
Sacks: Leopold Aschenbrenner's wife is Dario Amodei's chief of staff
“And his wife is Dario's chief of staff.”
Friedberg: AI boom is driven by unprecedented real revenue and profits
“With the dot-com boom, it was all, like, metrics that weren't dollars. What we're seeing now is revenue and profits and growth. In revenue and profits that we've never seen before. And that's kind of the anthropic story. It's the data center, infrastructure, n…”
Calacanis: Anthropic's seven co-founders donated 80% of their shares to a trust
“The seven co-founders of, this is my understanding, it's been documented I think in a bunch of press reports, but they never talk about it. They donated 80% of their shares. So like 10% of Anthropics in some sort of trust”
Sacks: Anthropic's Pricing Power May Be Sustainable for Frontier AI
“So now, look, I actually think that their pricing power may be quite sustainable, because I think people are willing to pay, not the whole market, but a decent subset of the market is willing to pay a premium for true frontier intelligence.”
Sacks: Musk's compute deal includes a 90-day cancellation clause
“Both sides have a 90 day cancellation, which means that if the spot price of compute goes up, he benefits. If it goes down, by the way, it could hurt him because either side could renegotiate within 90 days, right? So basically Elon is able to charge spot -90.”
Gerstner: Vast majority of AI compute offtake comes from 3 companies
“So the vast majority of the offtake commitments are coming from Anthropic, OpenAI, and NVIDIA. Right. When you hear about the hyperscalers building all of this, you know, this computer, they're building it out to sell to the people that we you know, that we ju…”