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Anthropic has completely overtaken OpenAI in revenue
“So I'm just curious how you reconcile what you were saying about the costs and everything with just the unprecedented growth that Anthropic has seen and the like flippening with open AI where it has just completely overtaken open AI from a revenue perspective.”
Morin: Anthropic is raising at an $800B valuation
“And Anthropic this week, I heard, is also now raising at an eight hundred billion.”
Dave Morin: Anthropic Is the Anti-Free Speech AI Company
“Sam, we've always known that Anthropic is the anti-free speech company.”
Eric Schmidt invested in Anthropic through a relationship with Dario Amodei's wife
“Her romantic turned business relationship with Eric Schmidt that led to the, his investment in Danthropic to crossing paths briefly with Jeffrey Epstein in terms of pitching him on her company.”
Morin: Anthropic Is Guided by Anger and Spite Toward OpenAI
“So much of what anthropic does is guided by anger and spite towards open AI and the people involved in open AI.”
Sam Lessin: Big Frontier AI Labs Are Economically 'Fucked'
“This isn't a technical commentary, but from like a business and economics perspective, I think all the big labs are fucked.”
Jessica Lessin: Anthropic will go public by September
“Anthropic will go public. I would be shocked if they're not public in September.”
Lessin: Anthropic is winning the AI race, not OpenAI
“He's not a real company like Google or Open or Meta or someone who actually five percent is meaningful, and he's not even winning the pure AI race. It's an anthropic is.”
Developers are quietly replacing Claude Opus 4.8 with open-source GLM 5.2
“Everyone that I've been interacting with and many people across the open clock community are switching it out for Opus four dot eight and they don't notice a difference.”
Anthropic possesses an unreleased frontier AI model called Mythos
“We have the whole scenario now where there is a model that exists called Mythos. Nobody really has it except for Anthropic, and who knows if the actual real model as opposed to distilled versions of it that they give access to will ever kind of come out, and m…”
AI and data center investments are literally sustaining the US economy
“If Anthropic were to fail, that would have a massive cascading effect on the entire economy and AI and data centers in general are what is literally keeping this economy going.”
Sam Lessin: Anthropic is currently the top winning AI company
“The number one winning company right now in AI, I think, is Anthropic. And they're actually shockingly focused, right? Like, it's cloud code. Very pure play.”
Morin: Anthropic faces platform problem as downstream companies lack revenue
“And it's just the truth. Like Anthropic is making all of the money and none of the companies being built on top of it are making revenue that exceeds their revenue. And so you've got a really serious platform problem.”
Sam Lessin: Anthropic engineers in middle America will need security forces
“The anthropic engineers will go to middle America and they're going to need a large security force.”
Lessin: Musk and SpaceX Dedicated 100% of First Colossus Project to Anthropic
“We have seen perhaps the strangest AI compute deal to date, which is Anthropic Colossus. So SpaceX, Elon Musk. Have given over their first Colossus project. 100%. Not like 40%.”
Dave Morin compares Anthropic's AI safety narrative to Catholic Church fear tactics
“The Catholic Church's narrative that was so successful for multiple, whatever, many hundreds of years was a Doomer narrative, and that the anthropic Doomer narrative basically uses the exact same fear trick in order to create a similar narrative, and that mayb…”
Sam Lessin claims Anthropic has officially surpassed OpenAI as biggest AI company
“Anthropic passed open AI.”
Lessin: Leaked OpenAI memo targeted Anthropic's ARR math and compute investment
“There was a memo that was leaked from OpenAI, an OpenAI memo that was leaked. I think it was in OpenAI's interest for this memo to be out there. I also think it was written in a way where they wanted it to be out there, where they came after Anthropic. Both fo…”
Lessin: Claude will pass OpenAI in ARR within two months
“Something would have to change in a dramatic fashion for Claude to not cross OpenAI in the next two months. Like, something weird would have to happen.”
Dave Morin: Anthropic claims software engineering jobs will vanish in 12 months
“Anthropic says no one will be doing software engineering 12 months from now.”
Sam Lessin says he definitely does not trust OpenAI
“I actually do kind of trust Anthropic, but not as much. I definitely don't trust, you know, OpenAI.”
Brit Morin: Anthropic CEO Claims AI Will Write Nearly All Code in 12 Months
“The CEO of Anthropix said, he said, In the next three to six months, AI is probably gonna be able to write 90% of all code. And in 12 months, nearly all code may be generated by AI.”
Lessin: Anthropic's IPO is around the corner
“You may also want to know the Anthropic IPOs around the corner, so this may seem like a relevant fact.”
Former Fed Chair Ben Bernanke sits on Anthropic's board-appointing trust
“It's the Anthropic Trust. It's just a group of, I think there are five, but they've only filled three people who pick the board members, and one of them is Ben Bernanke, fun fact.”
OpenAI is struggling to win enterprise clients away from Anthropic
“I keep hearing anecdotally that they're having trouble getting customers to switch from anthropic, even on a credible terms”
AI market faces correction because infrastructure capex far outpaces enterprise use
“I think you're going to see a retraction in the market. Like you're going to see we've built out a dramatic amount of infrastructure. A huge, you know, three trillion, four trillion dollars of capex has gone into this, and everyone rushed in, and they're tryin…”
Jessica Lessin: Anthropic and OpenAI IPO wealth will worsen brand backlash
“And you're gonna go into epic wealth generation Anthropic IPO, which isn't going to help the issue. And then same for open AI. So I don't know how you fix the image.”
Lessin: AI Competitors Distance Themselves as Anthropic Faces D.C. Scrutiny
“Everyone's just trying to say like, we are not anthropic in some way because anthropic is winning and anthropic also has some of the biggest problems in Washington.”
Jessica Lessin: OpenAI and Anthropic fear Chinese AI models undercutting them
“Anthropic and open AI are worried about the Chinese models undercutting them.”
Sam Lessin: Tech is pursuing political regulatory capture over market capitalism
“This is what I don't like about our moment in history, is I don't think we're playing capitalism anymore. Like, I think we're playing some, like, political capture game that is way less interesting than capitalism, right?”
Brit Morin: Frontier AI lab revenues will shift significantly over the next 6-12 months
“And I think you'll start to see the revenues shifting quite a bit over the next six to 12 months.”
Lessin: Anthropic employees will make fortunes simply because they could not sell
“There's a bunch of people who are gonna make a ton of money on anthropic purely because they didn't have the time To sell.”
U.S. government bans Anthropic foreign nationals from accessing frontier models
“The government's now said That foreign nationals inside Anthropic can't have access to it.”
OpenAI and Anthropic privately whisper near-term IPO timeframes
“They're gonna Set the benchmark, you know, they're going to set the roadmap, the playbook for anthropic and open AI, which are waiting in the wings and privately whispering timeframes that are quite sooner rather than later.”
OpenAI and Anthropic Are Both Targeting an October IPO
“I think all of that is smoke and mirrors. And I think they're probably on a very conventional IPO timeframe, putting them at October ish alongside anthropic.”
Except for OpenAI and Anthropic, AI Companies Are Just Arms Dealers
“Well, I think that if you're anyone other than OpenAI and Anthropic, you are now an arms dealer in the AI race, right? You're either selling access or you're renting access to your giant H 100, H 200 clusters, right? Or you are giving people access to the mode…”
Lessin: Frictionless switching will force AI token spending to rationalize quickly
“So obviously the future is not going to be like, you just send all of your stuff to the most expensive model, right? So this stuff should rationalize really quickly. And the fact that it's so frictionless means that it should rationalize financially way faster…”
Lessin: Opaque ROI creates temporary defensibility for expensive AI models
“Ironically, the fact that there's no demonstrable, measurable ROI is in some ways this weird moat for a while, because you're like, well, I can pay a 100th as much, but I can't actually measure the value of this token versus that token in from an ROI perspecti…”
US national security establishment relies heavily on Anthropic despite DoD tensions
“While you have the fight between Anthropic and DoD over these various guardrails that Anthropic was insisting on, it's still the case that much of the national security establishment relies on and loves Anthropic models, and they want to keep using them, and t…”
Anthropic exploited the Catholic Church for marketing with Pope appearance
“It's actually the story because the Pope shouldn't have had anybody on stage with him, let alone, you know, one of many of these different researchers providers. And so I really think that the church was taken advantage of, and it became a marketing moment for…”
Jessica Lessin: Anthropic has line of sight to $100B in revenue
“Anthropic will, they have line of sight to a hundred billion in revenue, like, no question, kind of. Like, I don't, I mean, they're not gonna, like, hit that this year or whatever, but, like, that's not a crazy thing for them, and their growth is accelerating,…”
Lessin: OpenAI and Anthropic will soon seek trillion-dollar valuations
“So you have these two AI companies that in really short order are going to be trying to convince public investors they're worth more than a trillion dollars, and they're going to have extraordinary revenue growth to back that up.”
Lessin: Retail investors will hate-invest in Anthropic as job-displacement hedge
“What people are going to view is like, I might be out of a job, so I better own an anthropic stock, right? Like it's going to be the, and they're going to hate it, but they're going to do it. Cause it's like, that's their hedge. So it is a hate invest, but the…”
Jessica Lessin: Andrej Karpathy has officially joined Anthropic
“Did you guys see Karpathy went to Anthropic?”
Jessica Lessin: Public market investors are trimming Mag 7 for upcoming mega IPOs
“And I gotta say by and large, and it's anecdotal, but there are enough of them. They are very, very excited about these companies and they're selling down their mag seven positions a little bit to, or preparing to like go all in on these companies.”