With Harry Stebbings, Jason Lemkin, and Rory O’Driscoll Anthropic just hit $30 billion in annualized revenue. Up from $9 billion at the start of the year. That’s 3.3x growth in four months. It took Salesforce 25 years to get to $30 billion. Anthropic got ther…
20VC x SaaStr: Anthropic Hit $30 Billion and Training Costs a Quarter of OpenAI’s, SpaceX Files at $1.75 Trillion, and Why the Big Three Will Dwarf Every IPO of the Last 25 Years Combined
Anthropic's AI model training infrastructure achieved $30B annualized revenue in 2024, with costs 25% lower than OpenAI's, raising concerns over potential supply chain vulnerabilities in AI training pipelines. The rapid scaling exposes dependent organizations to risks of data leaks, adversarial training contamination, or misconfigured infrastructure leading to RCE in AI development environments.