'Vibe accounting': netizen mocks Anthropic for counting revenue but not costs
AlexTensor · x · 2026-09-15
Netizen AlexTensor mocks Anthropic's financial framing with a new term, 'vibe accounting': Anthropic 'makes a lot of money, as long as you don't count what it costs to build and run our product.' Riding the IPO话题, the post questions the profitability math of AI companies whose revenue ignores massive training and inference costs. Unofficial commentary on AI startup unit economics.
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