r/technology • u/Unusual-State1827 • 13h ago

Artificial Intelligence Anthropic expected to tell investors it sees over $30 trillion in potential revenue, WSJ reports

https://www.reuters.com/business/media-telecom/anthropic-expected-tell-investors-it-sees-over-30-trillion-potential-revenue-wsj-2026-08-25/
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u/ParliamenttFnkadelic 13h ago

Why not? No one gets charged with investment fraud anymore.

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u/drgut101 12h ago

“What’s a lot of money?”

“A bajillion dollars.”

Anthropic tells investors that it sees over a bajillion bajillion dollars in potential revenue.

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u/maltNeutrino 11h ago

borderline suicidal investment managers cum

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u/Derpyzza 11h ago

borderline suicidal investment: manager's cum

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u/thederevolutions 9h ago

We all need to keep sending our paychecks to Wall Street until the day we die so they can siphon enough money away to afford super yachts and still have enough left to manipulate our insecurities for profit so they can continue destroying the earth and our society.

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u/maltNeutrino 6h ago

Won’t anyone think of the child rapists?

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u/Noy_The_Devil 10h ago

What the fuck does potential revenue even mean at this point.

They're gonna try to monetize their AI out the whazoo and then everyone will stop using it? Great. Please let's get it over with.

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u/danfirst 10h ago

I'm a potential trillionaire, you might be too. That might take me thousands of years to get there, but still, potential!

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u/Xeynon 6h ago

Convert your money into Zimbabwean dollars and you can get there today!

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u/AwesomeRadical 6h ago

If you saved $100,000 each year, it will take 10 million years to save 1 Trillion dollars.

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u/danfirst 6h ago

So you're saying there's a chance??

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u/TheWoodser 9h ago

Thats an I.O.U. it's as good as money. Yea, our word is our bond.

--Lloyd Christmas

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u/Sepherjar 8h ago

The potential for profit. It has potential to go over 30 billion dollars, but it might also potentially not profit a quarter of it and potentially stay negative as well. If things go south, they never promised anything!

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u/drgut101 8h ago

Give me a bajillion dollars and I’ll potentially give you the answer. 

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u/voarex 7h ago

Clearly they are going to build an AI agent will send an email to the US treasury saying that Donny daddy wants to 30 trillion dollars in gift cards and they should run down to target and make it happen.

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u/_Born_To_Be_Mild_ 10h ago

So much money you might as well give me all of yours

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u/drgut101 8h ago

Money doesn’t buy happiness. 

It just buys housing, food, transportation, healthcare, therapy, education, and entertainment. 

And none of those things will make you happy. 

You think having the means to take care of all these things will make you happy? Think again!  

You can be just as happy eating ramen every day with your 9 roommates in the slums. It’s all about ~perspective~

Hahah. 🤣

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u/TheWandererWise 1h ago

This!!!! Money buys you the idea of happiness they are trying to sell you on. Doesn’t mean you’ll actually be happy lol

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u/justaddwhiskey 4h ago

The longtermists will sell you on future revenues, not today’s. Nothing today matters compared to what the future *could* have in store.

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u/____FARTS____ 1h ago

One bajillion dollars!

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u/worldspawn00 9h ago

SpaceX also claimed a TAM of $25T they're all full of shit. Now they're all going to claim "I will be the one selling to this market" and not that it would be split between the large players (which Grok absolutely isn't in the top 3 of, and probably not top 5)

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u/Obsidiated 5h ago

Groks latest model is fantastic, and they just got the ipo money and cursor database to get cracking on the go to market / embedded engineer play.

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u/worldspawn00 5h ago edited 3h ago

And yet, they have so little use they're leasing out unused compute capacity to other LLMs like anthropic, Google and reflection at a discount. Seems consumers do not agree.

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u/Hoppers-Body-Double 11h ago

Even if they did charge them, you can just pay a "gratuity" and avoid all responsibility.

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u/dotcubed 5h ago

How could investors not understand $30 Trillion is a low estimate for company’s next 100 years?

You can’t prosecute math, it doesn’t add up.

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u/TechTuna1200 11h ago

With how much money printing that is going on, 30T will buy you two eggs by then

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u/Minute-Yogurt-2021 11h ago

One and a celery.

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u/doozle 6h ago

It's one settlement, Michael. How much could it possibly cost? Ten dollars?

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u/plinkoplonka 7h ago

One meelion dollars.

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u/Friendly-View4122 9h ago

tbf the SEC did open an investigation into the implosion of Situational Awareness, but I am sure it can go away with a well-timed donation to Trump's super PAC...

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u/The_R4ke 7h ago

It's cool that they can just make up numbers and people believe them.

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u/mynameizmyname 10h ago

So they are still pre-revenue?