Anthropic tripled its revenue in 5 months - and this is why

Artificial intelligence startup Anthropic has hit 3 billion in annualized revenue, marking a 200% increase in just five months, according to a Friday report from Reuters. Anthropic's annualized revenue -- or its total projected earnings over the course of the year, assuming its current rate of income continues -- was close to 1 billion in December, according to the Reuters report, which cited anonymous sources close to the matter. It crossed the 2 billion threshold in late March and reached 3 billion last month. Also: Anthropic's free Claude 4 Sonnet aced my coding tests - but its paid Opus model somehow didn't Founded in 2021 by siblings Dario and Daniela Amodei, both former OpenAI employees, Anthropic has built its business model around its Claude family of generative AI chatbots. The company has also positioned itself as a leader in the responsible deployment of powerful AI tools.