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No, they are not "losing gigantic amounts of money".

They are already profitable and are investing enormous amounts into datacenter buildout to meet demand over the next years.

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The substack linked below only looks into one tiny sliver of the off-sheet circular financing that dwarfs even the most optimistic revenue growth, but it's a good place to start to understand why this is a bubble and that, yes, Anthropic is in fact "losing gigantic amounts of money":

"Boom and bust is not about revenue. To find that kind of risk, start by reading the balance sheet... [The 2008] bust came from off-balance-sheet instruments."

https://kennyfraser.substack.com/p/anthropic-ipo-part-one-wh...

Patrick Boyle goes into a deep dive that's well worth the watch:

https://youtu.be/Ic1Jf7VlXRM?si=DjiP6LVdEykBlWwU

What are you talking about? OpenAI is losing money, projected a $14B loss for 2026 and is themselves not expecting profit until 2029-30. xAI is losing money, about 3B.

Granted, maybe I extrapolated Anthropic's profitable operating result to other companies where it's not yet looking so good.

I believe your $14B OpenAI number is from 2025 though.

Where do you get the idea that Anthropic is profitable from? Is this another one of those “if we remove everything that is a cost, then revenue means profit”-scenarios?

I believe the technical term is EBBT (Earnings Before Bad Things).

If you ignore equipment and labor, gold mines are pure profit.

Anyone who counts cost as part of their P&L shouldn't be allowed to make decisions! /s

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