Anthropic flags revenue surge to investors ahead of stock market debut — SkimNews
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- Anthropic saw quarterly revenue surge 45% to $16.8bn (£12.7bn) in the three months to end of September, figures revealed to prospective investors at its San Francisco headquarters on Wednesday.
- Anthropic's revenue climbed sharply through 2025 — from $4.7bn in Q1 to $11.6bn in Q2 to $16.8bn in Q3 — and the company reported a profit for the second quarter in a row.
- Anthropic is laying groundwork for a stock market listing expected before year-end, opening a new Singapore office on Wednesday as part of its global expansion.
- CEO Dario Amodei has publicly called for slowing the pace of AI development, a stance set against Anthropic's own rapidly accelerating commercial trajectory.
- Rival OpenAI — whose own listing is expected to value it at more than $1tn — said in September it will not go public this year as it addresses AI safety concerns, leaving Anthropic's numbers as a closely watched gauge of the sector's financing capacity.
Why it matters: Anthropic's revenue more than tripled from $4.7bn in Q1 to $16.8bn in Q3 with a second consecutive quarter of profit, giving the company unusually strong fundamentals heading into a year-end IPO. With OpenAI publicly delaying its own listing, Anthropic's filings will become the cleanest near-term read on whether AI labs can monetize fast enough to justify the infrastructure spending driving chipmaker and tech-stock volatility.
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