Anthropic says it hit a $30 billion revenue run rate after 'crazy' 80x growth

Dario Amodei is not the kind of CEO who talks loosely about numbers. The Anthropic co-founder and chief executive, a former VP of research at OpenAI with a PhD in computational neuroscience from Princeton, has built a reputation for measured public statements — particularly around the financial performance of a company that, until recently, disclosed almost nothing about its business.

So when Amodei took the stage at Anthropic's Code with Claude developer conference on Wednesday and offered a genuinely striking piece of financial candor, the room paid attention.

"We tried to plan very well for a world of 10x growth per year," Amodei said during a fireside chat with Anthropic's chief product officer, Ami Vora. "And yet we saw 80x. And so that is the reason we have had difficulties with compute."

Anthropic had planned for tenfold growth. But revenue and usage increased 80-fold in the first quarter on an...

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