Anthropic mocked: "profitable, as long as you don't count costs"
AlexTensor · x · 2026-09-15
Reacting to Anthropic's financials, a user mocked the company's profitability framing: "We make a lot of money, as long as you don't count what it costs to build and run our product" — part of ongoing debate over whether frontier AI labs are actually profitable given massive compute spending.
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