Amodei: AI models make money individually while companies lose money scaling
Dario Amodei · The Secret Economics Controlling OpenAI, Anthropic, and the AI Boom · Feb 18, 2026 · at 17:30
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Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei explains to Dwarkesh Patel why frontier AI labs remain unprofitable despite positive gross unit economics on inference.
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“Each model makes money, but the company loses money.”
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