Anthropic disclosed an $80.7B net loss for the first half of 2026

hodgehog11

I'm not foolish enough to say that AI is not economically viable. But these two companies specifically, OpenAI and Anthropic, just seem totally screwed. They're making great revenue, but their expenditure is unbelievably irresponsible (actually, their behaviour across the board is irresponsible). Training, testing, and marketing should not be this expensive. I'm looking forward to the new wave of companies that will likely pick up after them, and engage in much more responsible business practices. These two have got to go.

marcwieserdev

https://archive.is/20261020220344/https://www.wsj.com/tech/a...

KellyCriterion

In the long run, there will be two AI winners: - Google will win the retail/free AI space and they can afford to offer Gemini for free for ever - Anthropic will win Enterprise AI, but at very high costs and based on the dependency of their customers onto them, after the trap snaps: I expect a Claude seat for 1000+/month

esperent

More discussion here from earlier: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50171966