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I think Anthropic and OpenAI have found product-market fit

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Simon Willison Nicole Hennig Dare Obasanjo Social Media Lab

“I wrote about why I think they've hit product market fit back in May simonwillison.net/2026/May/27/...”

“I think Anthropic and OpenAI have found product-market fit - Simon Willison simonwillison.net/2026/May/27/pr… #AI #finances”

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Ed Zitron: So far the only retort from the AI boosters appears to be “2025 doesn’t matter” and I’m not kidding
Simon Willison: Well yeah... your replies are filled with people who seem to think those 2025 numbers represent the current financial state of the company, when they very clearly do not
Ed Zitron: Anthropic fans don’t even try and defend the company anymore they just look at you like this
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Developing AI field signal Signal 2d ago

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Simon Willison Sung Kim Mary Branscombe

“"Anthropic told investors on Wednesday distillation accounted for 5 per cent to 7 per cent of revenue" If true, and Q2 revenue was $11.5B, then that's more than half a billion dollars spent by other labs to distill Anthropic's models! www.ft.com/content/116…”

“Something tells me Anthropic ain't worth $2T. www.ft.com/content/1163...”

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Sung Kim: Something tells me Anthropic ain't worth $2T. www.ft.com/content/1163...
Gus: why do you think so? (not a challenge!!, real curiosity)
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Simon Willison: I spotted Claude doing something similar recently, didn't realize ChatGPT had that too I don't really understand these features :/
Alondra Nelson: Apparently ChatGPT on macOS, when starting a conversation in "work" mode, grants continued remote access to the computer it was started on to anyone logged in to the same account, including the web…
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Dare Obasanjo: One thing I dislike about the current AI-native focus across tech is how difficult it is to give advice to entry-level PMs. Few companies want to hire you, and those that do increasingly want you t…
Simon Willison: Do you think it makes sense to coach them in learning how to build interactive prototypes?
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