Anthropic Projects Second Profitable Quarter Ahead of IPO
TL;DR
- Anthropic told investors preliminary Q2 revenue exceeded $11.5 billion with roughly $559 million in adjusted operating profit, a second straight profitable quarter.
- Gross margins are pegged above 80% before revenue shared with Amazon and other distribution partners and before the cost of training its models.
- The disclosure lands as Anthropic prepares a Nasdaq IPO at a valuation near $2 trillion, with Nvidia weighing an anchor investment of up to $10 billion.
Anthropic told prospective investors that its adjusted operating income will be positive for a second straight quarter, the Financial Times reported. Preliminary Q2 revenue topped $11.5 billion, up more than 14-fold from a year earlier, with roughly $559 million in operating profit. Q1 revenue was $4.73 billion.
The gross-margin claim is the eye-catcher. Anthropic pegs gross margins "above 80% before accounting for revenue shared with distribution partners, including Amazon, and the cost of training its model." Two of the largest cost lines in a frontier AI company sit outside that number.
The disclosure lands as the company prepares its Nasdaq listing at a valuation approaching $2 trillion. Nvidia is in talks to anchor the IPO with an investment of up to $10 billion, a thread we've been tracking since Friday.
The Q2 figures were shared with prospective investors and remain preliminary.
Originally reported by ft.com
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