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How? They're already burning $2 bills to make $1, court documents shown that Anthropic has already been lying around revenue (claimed to have made $19 billion when it's actually $5 billion to date [1]).

Not hard to believe they're lying about other things when they've been lying about the capability of their products since inception.

[1] https://www.reuters.com/commentary/breakingviews/anthropic-g...

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That is not what the article says, it says $19B ARR.

I don’t necessarily see a contradiction. $19B run rate, achieved very recently, is actually consistent with $5B lifetime earnings, because their growth curve is so sharp. Zitron is not good at math.

Didn't link to Zitron site but if you can't see how dishonest it is to say you have $19b ARR when the reality is you have only a total of $5b IDK what to tell you. Says more about how you think and why you think it's okay for corporations to be misleading.

Seems natural to me too. ARR is understood as the current rate. It would be more misleading to say 5b ARR.

Its like asking how fast a car is moving.

This is not lying, that is just what run rate revenue means! It makes sense to use as a metric when a company’s user base is growing as fast as Anthropic’s is.

It makes sense to be extremely misleading about actual accounting figures? In what world is it okay to say you have $19b in ARR when you have only ever generated $5b for the entire duration of your company's existence?

Did Enron start a business school I'm unaware of something?

sir if you say a number is $19B and everyone who is invested knows what it means, is there a problem?

> In what world is it okay to say you have $19b in ARR when you have only ever generated $5b for the entire duration of your company's existence?

In the same world that it makes sense to say that your current speed is 57mph when you've only driven 15 miles since starting the trip.

hah that’s a great way to explain it

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