Dario Amodei says Anthropic had planned to grow ~10x in 2026 but saw “crazy” 80x annualized growth in revenue and usage in Q1, calling it “too hard to handle”
The chief executive, Dario Amodei, said the rapid growth had exponentially increased the start-up's need for more computing power.
New York Times Natallie Rocha
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Code with Claude is happening now! ▪︎ 9:00AM - Keynote ▪︎ 10:30AM - What's new in Claude Code ▪︎ 11:15AM - Building on Claude at GitHub scale ▪︎ 12:00PM - Get to production faster with Managed Agents All times PT. https://x.com/...
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Wow. Infinite context windows “coming soon” mentioned in the Claude event. Very exciting. I think they made a breakthrough. [image]
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Mercado Libre on stage at Code with Claude SF 500K PRs reviewed by agents with human oversight Love seeing a Latam company showcased at Anthropic's conference The region has been quietly shipping serious AI adoption, and this confirms it's not quiet anymore If this pace keeps [im…
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Hello from Code with Claude! [image]
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Anthropic getting ready for its first ever developer conference on May 6 in SF [image]
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Notes from Code with Claude SF: Anthropic's developer conference. Dario and Daniela Amodei with Ami Vora. Theme: what the exponential looks like from the inside. • Planned for 10x growth. Q1 2026 annualized at 80x. Run rate crossed $30B, up from $9B end of 2025. The compute
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Lauren Goode
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At Code with Claude dev conference, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei says the idea of the single-person, $1 billion dollar company hasn't been fully realized yet, but he thinks it could happen by end of 2026. (This is a fave fantasy of the frontier AI folks. Sam Altman has said
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Up next: ▪︎ 1:00PM - A conversation with our co-founders Dario Amodei and Daniela Amodei, moderated by Chief Product Officer Ami Vora ▪︎ 1:50PM - Watch how @bcherny and @jarredsumner build with Claude Code
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Ben Pouladian
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Today Dario admits that Anthropic only planned for 10x growth but got hit with 80x instead Internally called a “success disaster” Their compute effectively is off by a factor of 8x or more Now do the outages, rate limits, nerfed performance make sense? We need more compute! [vide…
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Kyle Mickey
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BREAKING: Corewood founder says we could grow by 87 times this year. — NYT please pick up this story and run with it. — TETRA is more interesting and useful than LLMs. …