Anthropic's IPO filing, as reported: revenue up fast, costs up faster

The Wall Street Journal says it has seen Anthropic's draft IPO prospectus: first-half revenue reportedly grew from $1.1 billion to $16.3 billion and compute spending from about $2.3 billion to about $9 billion, with around $450 billion of mostly non-cancellable cloud commitments and, per the headline, an $80 billion net loss. These figures come from a paywalled report we couldn't check independently, and @kimmonismus's $2 trillion valuation is his own opinion. He also passes on a report that OpenAI is rushing a roughly $30 billion raise before Anthropic's expected mid-November listing, which is unconfirmed.

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