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wahnfrieden 3 hours ago

They are just repeating old tropes about unprofitability without reassessing

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Hamuko 3 hours ago | parent [-]

Do you have a source for Anthropic being profitable?

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stymaar 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Of course they are “profitable”, Dario said so last month (if you accept a definition of “profitability” under which every tech startup is profitable by the day they have their first paying customer).

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ceroxylon 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

https://www.forbes.com/sites/jonmarkman/2026/08/17/anthropic...

Anthropic themselves claim to be profitable, fwiw.

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_aavaa_ 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Do you have proof of unprofitability?

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stymaar 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

The fact that Amodei had to invent a new definition of the word “profitable” last month is a strong hint…

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JumpCrisscross 2 hours ago | parent [-]

> Amodei had to invent a new definition of the word “profitable” last month

Source?

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stetrain 2 hours ago | parent [-]

https://finance.yahoo.com/technology/ai/articles/anthropic-p...

They seem to be reporting gross margin by excluding the cut that cloud providers take for hosting their models, and excluding R&D.

Basically they seem to be taking credit for the whole amount that customers are paying cloud providers to run Anthropic models, rather than the actual net proceeds of that business to Anthropic.

	▲	JumpCrisscross an hour ago \| parent [-]
		> They seem to be reporting gross margin by excluding the cut that cloud providers take for hosting their models, and excluding R&D The media is overstating what they're being leaked. Anthropic is reporting traditional losses. It's also highlighting that operating figure, because it answers the question around what the business could look like in a steady-state and first-party-only mode. They aren't claiming the profitable right now. But for an unprofitable company, having these sorts of metrics can give you a sense around when they will become profitable and what it will take. (Plenty of people were doubting that AI makes money on inference not too long ago.)

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Hamuko 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

How about the fact that they're not shouting from the rooftops how they're managing to make money in an industry that is currently mostly known as a giant money fire? Instead they're reporting being profitable "after making certain adjustments", which sounds a lot like "not profitable".

	▲	JumpCrisscross 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		> they're reporting being profitable "after making certain adjustments", which sounds a lot like "not profitable" Adjusting out stock-based compensation and non-cash expenses is absolutely fine for a company growing at the rate Anthropic is. The concern is more that they cherry picked a couple months when their expenses were abnormally low [1]. [1] https://www.wheresyoured.at/anthropics-profitability-swindle...

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JacobAsmuth 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

If someone gives you one you're just going to say you don't believe it, so why bother?

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48488485 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

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