Anthropic's "Profitability" Swindle

samat

Dupe https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48230001

2001zhaozhao

Anthropic is selling a lot of tokens to companies at full price right now, where it's almost certainly very profitable given that Opus costs several times the current going prices for open model inference.

hawkice

As a software engineer who has monitored LLM viability as a coding assistant, the idea that 90% of Anthropic's lifetime revenue up to the end of Q1, was in Q1 itself, seems completely realistic to me. And if every model is profitable but they're getting income on a model that costs X while training the one that costs 10X, everything else makes sense too, and this is indeed their highly reasonable claim.