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Why Does Anthropic's S-1 Show an $80 Billion Loss? · Decoder with Nilay Patel

Decoder with Nilay Patel

Inside Anthropic’s trillion-dollar AI gamble

Today, I’m joined by Joey Brookhart, an analyst at the chip and AI research firm SemiAnalysis, to help me dig into the story inside the massive Anthropic IPO filing. This isn’t just about a single company’s financials, or its lofty ambitions or frankly ludicrous risk factors, which include maybe automating every job or, you know, killing everyone. It’s…

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  1. What Is Anthropic's Annual Recurring Revenue? at 3:43

    Joey Brookhart says Anthropic's S-1 shows a company that scaled, with capital efficiency, to a valuation above a trillion dollars and more than $70 billion in… Full answer

  2. How Did Anthropic's Inference Margins Turn Positive? at 9:09

    Joey Brookhart says Anthropic's gross margin on inference went from negative 94% two years ago to positive 85% now. Full answer

  3. Why Does 80% of Anthropic's Revenue Come From New Models? at 14:43

    Joey Brookhart says 80% of Anthropic's revenue in the last three months came from models released in the last six months. Full answer

  4. Does the AI Industry Follow Apple's iPhone Playbook? at 20:20

    Nilay Patel says the AI industry does not follow Apple's iPhone playbook. Full answer

  5. Why Does Anthropic's S-1 Show an $80 Billion Loss? at 23:11

    Joey Brookhart says Anthropic's $80 billion loss is a non-cash charge for warrants and convertible notes after the valuation jumped, not cash missing from the… Full answer

  6. Can Anthropic Pay for Its Compute Commitments? at 25:57

    Joey Brookhart says Anthropic can cover its compute commitments with revenue. Nilay Patel cites an analysis above $800 billion over 10 years. Full answer

  7. How Do OpenAI's Margins Compare With Anthropic's? at 43:59

    Joey Brookhart says OpenAI's margins do not look like Anthropic's. Full answer

  8. Why Did Anthropic's Third Quarter Slow Down? at 45:52

    Joey Brookhart says Anthropic's third quarter slowed because Meta, probably more than 10% of revenue, cut Claude Code seats from 60,000 to 30,000, and because… Full answer

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