Defending Anthropic's $80B loss: $72B was non-cash accounting, revenue grew $1.1B to $16.3B
AIandDesign · x · 2026-10-21
Responding to criticism of Anthropic's $80 billion loss, AIandDesign breaks down the numbers: $72 billion of it came from non-cash accounting charges, while revenue grew from $1.1B to $16.3B in a year. He asks when groundbreaking tech companies were ever expected to be profitable on day one; the critic counters that the revenue growth numbers involve their own accounting tricks.
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