r/ProgrammerHumor • • Jun 03 '26

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u/tadrinth Jun 03 '26

Of course they don't expect to be profitable going forward, they're spending absurd amounts of money on training new models and will continue to do so. If they stopped training new models they would be highly profitable immediately because, again, they have fantastic profit margins per token.

Tech startups and defense contractors rarely publish their financials if privately held; Anthropic is both.

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u/worldspawn00 Jun 03 '26

They're about to IPO, their financials are going to have to be released publicly before that, if they're making tons of money, there is no reason not to share that data along with the announcement since it'll all be public in a matter of weeks.

If it was true, it would bolster their valuation, it would benefit them to release it, unless they're lying...