Pricing Anthropic at $1.5tn: between curing all disease and ending civilization
birchlse · x · 2026-11-11
birchlse jokes about Anthropic's $1.5tn valuation: a company that will cure all disease, end civilization, or both, and the market's hedge lands at roughly Berkshire Hathaway's worth. He adds he doesn't literally believe that framing—investors are simply ignoring both extreme outcomes, thinking "It's no iPhone, but it could be an iPad."
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