today at 12:10 PM
There is a lot of value from LLMs but it is something that I can switch easily. Yes, some frontier models are much better but users can still chose to use cheaper models for most of the work. In fact most applications, through which people will interact with LLMs anyway, will not need frontier models unless they offer "chat with AI". Anything that solves specific problems (even multiple problems) does not need frontier LLMs.
Anthropic and OpenAI will have to become more of the end user application stack. Files, calendars, emails, photos, and much more have to pass through them for them to keep making money. Else they cannot make money like the way they have been in this early era of LLMs.
today at 12:13 PM
a big move into end-user software would mean that they have to compete heavily with their own largest customers. The economics of offering SaaS are also under meaningful pressure and don't warrant anywhere near the valuation that is being suggested
today at 1:07 PM
The biggest moat with applications like MS Office is compatibility. Sharing a slide deck or spreadsheet with others is a simple decision, you know they have it or have software that can read/write it.
I don't get the need to have Anthropic build their custom versions of MS Office apps, I can tell Claude to generate a word doc from a wiki page and it does a pretty damn good job. Anthropic's statistical median level of software that they had Claude create isn't going to replace Office apps to the point where companies cancel/stop renewing their MS Office subscriptions/licenses.
The other element is trust. Do end users trust their data in Anthropic's systems? A lot of people get creeped out when they search for content from one device in their household and then nearly instantaneously they start seeing ads from other devices on the same topic. How creepy will AI get if it starts consuming all your docs, spreadsheets, personal finance info, emails, etc.?
today at 12:22 PM
End-user software is going to be under a lot of pressure. If you're Microsoft, Apple, or Google: you can easily copy products or integrate ideas into their platform. I see companies like Adobe, Salesforce, and Oracle having to downsize significantly to stay profitable. Having said that, my in-laws still pay for an AOL email so I don't think their cashflow is going to zero soon.
today at 12:32 PM
Adobe seems to be in a tough spot, because so much of the lock-in is client side, I think Salesforce is fairly well protected, it's just so impossibly difficult to remove once a company has fully adopted it. Similar to the staying power of the ERPs of Oracle and SAP.
today at 12:43 PM
It's the same really. There have always been alternatives that can work with Adobe's various file formats. Even more aren't going to change much, at least for their enterprise key customers. This is not only the case for Adobe, but many others as well, e.g. MS office is still a thing these days, and so are things like 3Ds Max or Maya, albeit having many compatible cheaper or even free alternatives. It's not so much about features, pricing or even stability. It's about customer support. Do I want to ask an LLM and test my luck or write a GitHub issue and cross my fingers that someone will read it within the next weeks? No, I will pick up my phone or write a mail and get a response within hours if not minutes.
today at 1:01 PM
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today at 12:59 PM
> If you're Microsoft, Apple, or Google: you can easily copy products or integrate ideas into their platform
This argument doesn't hold water. Google tried like no one else to have a chat app and it failed miserably more than a handful of times. Same for social networks.
today at 12:36 PM
now imagine that said customer/competitors have been uploading/generating their source code, problem reports, marketing collateral, and other IP _to the LLM company_ for the last few years.
today at 12:55 PM
Yes, they know that. Thatās why Claude is becoming a platform like Google Workspace.
They need to leverage Claude Code in the software industry to position themselves as the go-to platform for businesses.
Meanwhile, Google and Microsoft, which already dominate that area, seem to be dormant.
today at 12:58 PM
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today at 12:19 PM
True. We will end up getting more Google alternatives. Nothing beyond that for now at least.
today at 12:30 PM
Easily in the context of the corporate world is to pay for something, that something gets installed and then just works, and if it doesnāt work thereās always someone you can call 24/7 to come and fix it. I donāt see how this is possible with open models.
today at 12:35 PM
the answer is to use a gateway that all the prompts go through. There are many proprietary and open source solutions for this. You get the benefit of making it trivial to switch between proprietary providers in case you are unhappy with the performance or squeezed on price. The AI Gateways put cap on LLM providers' margin upside.
Additionally, the gateway allows for caching, additional security checks, centralized monitoring. I think most corporations have a multi-provider setup anyway.
today at 12:59 PM
What do you mean? We use Bedrock at our company and I can switch to literally any model, including the open ones, by just typing /model and picking it, even including inside Claude Code. It's ridiculously easy to switch, and imho GLM 5.3 is good enough for 99% of my daily tasks already.
today at 12:35 PM
You pay a service provider, who manages the open modelsā¦ there is absolutely nothing special about it. The hardware can be something you own. Or you rent. Or you just pay the service provider to access the open model apis. Lots of options here, itās not different from pretty much any other software service in the corporate world
today at 12:32 PM
Isn't that exactly how Linux companies are making money?
today at 12:40 PM
Good luck in calling Anthropic support...
today at 12:13 PM
It feels like people are still trying to bet on the horse that will achieve gAI.
today at 12:26 PM
I'm fascinated by exactly how an investment in the company that first reaches AGI (or whatever we decide to call it) might pay off... It feels like the stocks would absolutely be worth owning in the immediate term because they'd be hot property at the point where people realise it's happening.
The thing that I'm less clear on is, if and when they achieve some kind of recursive improvement exponential growth thingy, isn't that going to heavily disrupt the entire economy / stock market? In that environment, would Anthropic's stocks really be a good bet, given they have to operate within the economy?
today at 12:44 PM
> The thing that I'm less clear on is, if and when they achieve some kind of recursive improvement exponential growth thingy, isn't that going to heavily disrupt the entire economy / stock market? In that environment, would Anthropic's stocks really be a good bet, given they have to operate within the economy?
That's a long-term problem to be dealt with later, greed dictates to pursue the former as long as the music is playing and everyone is dancing. Similar to 2007-2008 when it was clear that things were breaking but the incentives were to play the game for as long as possible before it imploded.
today at 12:47 PM
It's clearer to me why this works for generic investors than for the AI companies themselves - unless their plan is just for key employees to cash out and live on a private moon just before Consequences arrive.
today at 1:05 PM
>> that first reaches AGI (or whatever we decide to call it) might pay off
It is a myth. They are chasing science fiction. They either dream of an omniscient overseer who will take control of society and nominate its shareholders-parents into the governing elite, or they envision a chatbot that will solve every problem, again turning shareholders into the power brokers. They forget that nobody will ever be allowed to "win capitalism" and take over the planet. Companies have are torn down for far far less. Every AI model is data, ones and zeros. It therefore can be copied/shared/leaked. Intellectual Property law is not a ladder for assent to lordship. It can and will be rewritten or outright ignored rather than allow capitalism to collapse.
today at 12:51 PM
> It feels like people are still trying to bet on the horse that will achieve gAI.
I think that at this point gAI is just a marketing blurb, and the actual race is to dominate current practical applications involving basic RAG and ReAct loops. This can go from anything between software development, business intelligence, and market research. A company whose top brass can use a team of agents to do what nowadays they assign to mid- and top-level management is an executive with tighter control over the whole business process. For this you don't need gAI.
today at 12:19 PM
This is the same argument we have heard many times with SaaS that would presumably get replaced by open source equivalents. In practice it does not happen because there is a lot of value in having someone else deal with a problem.
today at 12:45 PM
That "someone else" is just shifting from a single open source maintainer to an LLM.
today at 12:57 PM
Not only can you switch easily, they all seem to do the same thing, fail in the same ways, make the same bad linguistic choices, write the same code... I think at the end of the day, LLMs are a commodity. They're like a grease, or oil. They're trying all the tricks with branding cute names, version numbers, benchmarks, thinking levels, but it all just seems the same stuff to me: I put in tokens, I get more tokens back, and if I didn't know ahead I wouldn't be able to distinguish if they'd come from Anthropic or OpenAI or wherever. Maybe some people can but I can't.
today at 12:59 PM
A few important points from the linked documents:
1. Price range: $70ā78 with midpoint at around $74.00
2. Gross deal size: $85.3B (IPO + $26B private placement)
3. Implied market cap: ~$968B (at $74, 13.09B shares)
4. Q3'26 revenue: $17.0B (+1,127% YoY)
5. Run-rate revenue: ~$81B (as of Oct 2026)
6. Compute commitments: $900.9B (through 2045)
7. Ticker: ANT (Nasdaq)
8. Customers with ā„$100K, ā„$1M and ā„$10M TTM revenue: 11,900+, 1,900+ and ~250.
9. Customers under $100K: ~40 million
10. Fortune 500 penetration: over 50%
11. Global 2000 penetration: over 30%
today at 12:07 PM
āThe IPO process begins with a roadshow starting on November 10th (EST). Subject to regulatory clearance, the final IPO share price is expected to be set on November 18th (EST), and shares are expected to begin publicly trading on November 19th (EST).ā
today at 12:18 PM
So if share price is only set one day before trading, I guess you just have that day to decide to buy if you can get allocation from your broker? I'd like to try it but I've never bought an IPO before.
today at 12:26 PM
I have tried a couple of IPOs
You indicate your interest. Also start funding the account. So you fund 7000 for 100 shares at 70. Then they announce the price is 75. You must change the order to fit the funds or have extra money. Of course you can opt out or change the quantity anyways. But I think in both the cases I actually went ahead (Reddit and figma), I had to reconfirm the quantity. You can't be away from the network.
today at 12:24 PM
You commit to your broker before, if you're big enough of a player. They'll mostly have allocated to their biggest clients and such.
Pretty hard to get in on a hot IPO, though, as the shares will go to their favorite clients (those with the most money).
today at 1:00 PM
To further emphasize this, it is very challenging to get in a pre-auction allocation.
You can submit an order via your broker (depending on the broker and your account) to the auction itself on the exchange once itās in the quotation phase.
Not that I would advocate for that. Sometimes itās better to buy in the secondary market once things settle a bit.
today at 12:29 PM
I got lucky in the Reddit ipo. I had decent karma so I got invited for their special insider track. But I had to create a new account via a link shared by Reddit. Got what I asked for.
But otherwise yes it goes as described above.
today at 12:30 PM
I just 'bought' some through ing-diba, you can set a limit.
today at 12:23 PM
today at 12:21 PM
You don't need a broker. Use Saxobank or similar.
today at 12:24 PM
"You don't need a broker. Use some other broker."
today at 12:34 PM
It's a "neobroker", get on with the times!
today at 12:41 PM
The way I see it, AI is more comparable to some sort of utility. Like electricity, internet, etc. - and should be priced that way. If we ever get to "true" AGI, and the open source models also get there, what's the moat? Access to compute could be the differentiator.
today at 1:04 PM
> Access to compute could be the differentiator.
Already is the differentiator even with the models we have now which while having differences are mostly swappable for a lot of users/use cases.
For all that the local models have improved (and Qwen 3.8 27b is still impressing me) they aren't what you can run (or would run) if you have an entire data centre stuffed with H200's.
All this does is further widen the divide we already know exists by those with access to resources using them to increase their access to resources and those without getting to watch because there isn't much they can do without resources.
today at 1:02 PM
This is pretty much false. There's a lot of art and technique that goes into creating a model. A model is also clearly not fungible - it has certain characteristics and behaves a certain way. It is fungible in the same way humans are fungible.
today at 12:21 PM
The economics of this are absurd, and Anthropic hasn't been without their controversy; but I use Claude everyday, and they've made tremendous impact on society. I wish them the best for their IPO.
today at 12:06 PM
I would wait for 2-3 quarters before investing, it will drop and there will likely be lock-ins to contend with. if growth slows then price could tumble fast.
today at 1:06 PM
The stock market is barely distinguishable from a casino at this point (and arguably never has been far from gambling), I have 0 confidence that the horrible business that Anthropic is will be reflected accurately in any way
today at 12:10 PM
So I should short it?
today at 12:11 PM
To profit from shorting it you need to not just be right that it is going to go down, but be able to tolerate the volatility in the interim.
today at 12:35 PM
"Markets can remain irrational longer than you can remain solvent". That, or the markets may turn out to be right after all...
today at 12:48 PM
I always liked "you can remain irrational longer than you can remain solvent".
today at 12:36 PM
So I should straddle it?
edit: To clarify, this is a light-hearted continuation about how essentially any claim about the stock market is enactable in some form. And so even the much of generally well-intentioned advise is in fact a claim that the person should be putting their money on, if they truly believe it. I think only claims like "Nobody knows what's going to happen, it's effectively gambling => stay out of the market" come close to being fully self-consistent, but e.g. advising to not buy because the price comes down, or to not short because of volatility both fail this. Markets are funny.
today at 12:46 PM
I didn't claim that it was going to go down though.
My only claim was that to profit from shorting it you need to not just be right that it is going to go down, but be able to tolerate the volatility in the interim.
That's a claim about the stock market, how do you enact it?
Note it is not a claim that volatility is definitely going to be high.
today at 12:19 PM
If you have to ask, then you shouldnāt short it.
today at 12:29 PM
Right. I was trying to emphasize that no one knows what the stock price will do.
today at 12:35 PM
That's why there's a stock market
today at 12:21 PM
If you view that as an investment then no. If you view it as a minor flutter then maybe. You might believe that Team X will win the next game (maybe at a 60% chance) but unless you're a degenerate gambler you wouldn't bet heavily on that outcome.
today at 12:59 PM
Shorting the leading AI company during the AI revolution?
Reminds me when HN was saying NVIDIA is a good short 3 years ago, supposedly it was "in a bubble", because it's stock prices was as if it had 10x the revenue it had in back then. Plot twist: today NVIDIA revenue is 10x the revenue from 2023, so it turns out the stock was priced exactly right back then, because the stock market is forward looking.
today at 12:18 PM
As the late Charlie Munger said about Tesla: I wouldn't own it, I wouldn't short it.
today at 12:06 PM
Apparently not every country can participate in this IPO. As of now, if you open the Revolut Anthropic IPO page from Poland, you get:
> Linked page(s) related to Anthropic IPO can only be viewed by persons located in UK, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Ireland, the Netherlands, Norway, Spain, and Sweden.
today at 1:03 PM
Guessing, but probably where the underwriters have brokerage relations or there are favorable capital controls, since itās a US listing.
I confess Iām about 17 years out of practice in the Polish market, and about 12 years out of touch with how the European industry shakes out on the whole, so Iām not entirely familiar with the legal or business structures.
today at 12:11 PM
The UK page is effectively empty and just links to https://app.retailbook.com/offers/anthropic-ipo
today at 12:24 PM
And you then have to agree to not share anything in it with anyone outside the UK, including:
> I will not transmit or otherwise send any of the information to which this gateway gives access to any person outside the United Kingdom.
It's extremely hard with modern browsers to ensure that doesn't happen!
today at 12:12 PM
Poles apart.
today at 12:34 PM
Got into the gpt3 beta June 2021 and havenāt looked back, yet itās incredibly sad we had no avenue to invest in these companies until now.
Why doesnāt a private company stock market exist?
today at 12:37 PM
It exist, but not for poor peaople.
today at 1:07 PM
This is a little bit cheeky, but basically yeah.
Venture investment is limited to people who can demonstrably afford to take on the level of risk inherent to the market they're investing in. If you can't comfortably afford for the entirety of your venture investment to go to zero, you can't afford to invest in venture.
The exclusion criteria aren't perfect, (accredited investor designation is somewhat coarse-grained) but they're relatively reasonable.
today at 1:02 PM
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today at 12:51 PM
There have been billions and billions invested into Anthropic. It's very evidently possible. Just not for the general public.
today at 12:49 PM
> Why doesn't a private company stock market exist?
There is something almost ironic about you saying this on a site ran by Y combinator.
today at 12:46 PM
Because we - the plebs - are here to provide liquidity for the risk-takers. Hence whey they have to IPO.
But for what it is worth, for every successful AI company like Anthropic, OpenAI, etc. - there are probably tenfold more that are valued in the low billions, and will be the first ones to wash away / become worthless if/when the bubble pops.
And lastly, private sales do exist.
today at 12:56 PM
Increasingly these days, it seems if a VC backed company was profitable it would never IPO.
Why would they want to share profits?
In these companies, the shares *are* the product. Just like on social media *you* are the product, not the content.
today at 12:45 PM
It's called the Secondary Market
today at 12:55 PM
Around a few months back, it was very popular to argue that inference was subsidised and that Anthropic is losing a lot of money. Loads of commenters in HN were convinced that this was the case. I've personally lost count of the arguments I've gotten into on this topic.
This filing clearly shows that the training+inference margins are at around 43%.
I also had a bet with some one on this topic and this news pretty much settles it https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48473051
I wonder if people will now stop claiming that inference is subsidised? There has to be epistemic hygiene
Proof:
- Revenue (JanāSep 2026): $33.242 billion.
- Total compute and infrastructure costs (training + inference): $18.808 billion.
- Revenue after all compute costs: $14.434 billion.
- Margin: ($33.242B ā $18.808B) / $33.242B = 43.4%.
- Source: Anthropic's SEC S-1 filing, November 10, 2026, āOperating Expenses ā Compute and Infrastructure.ā
today at 1:05 PM
Youre talking about gross margin (revenue - cost of goods sold). Operating margin, which includes other operational expenses, is still negative. Net margin, which includes all expenses, is deeply negative.
today at 12:15 PM
There is a heavy amount of circular investments in the industry, among competitors. There is a private placement that is made in parallel with the public offering, through $26B of a special stock, according to the S1. They all have a lot to gain from a successful Anthropic public issue. The problem is it blurs the signal, we don't how much is overvaluation that contributes to a bubble.
I don't think there has often been such an intertwined industry before. Usually cartels are made through discreet partnerships at the operational level, this is an interconnection in the background at the financial one.
today at 12:37 PM
yep, for a comprehensive writeup and analysis of the circular finance topic, have a look at https://hntrbrk.com/investigations/nvidia
today at 12:05 PM
With SpaceX, now Anthropic, and soon OpenAI, we're seeing 3 of the largest IPOs ever. Will existing institutional investors trim other positions to allocate a lot of capital for these mega listings or is this not a concern?
today at 12:09 PM
I wouldn't worry too much about OpenAI; they seen to gave deferred their IPO until 'sometime in 2027'. At this point they're basically at the mercy of Anthropic, since if the Anthropic IPO goes poorly or gets pulled then it's going to look to investors (and everyone else, frankly) like OAI will be dead on arrival, too.
Fun times ahead, for sure.
today at 12:47 PM
growth flatlined between Q2 & Q3.
today at 12:10 PM
A lot of ink has been spilled over the projected IPO of the big AI player. But part of me wonder if, in some ways like what happen with SpaceX, it will end up being a nothingburger. A first few crazy days on the market, then whatever, the company is just public now. And with how shares and voting power are attributed, it seems like, just like for spacex, it won't risk changing the power structure of the company.
today at 12:24 PM
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today at 12:18 PM
"We have only bits and pieces of information, but what we know for certain is that at some point in the early twenty-first century, all of mankind was united in celebration. We marveled at our own magnificence as we gave birth to AI."
today at 12:27 PM
The Second Renaissance was great. Iāve heard a lot of scifi computers speak but the deadpan delivery of humanityās end in detail always kind of haunted me.
today at 12:21 PM
Dario will re-invest the profit to solve conflict mineral issues all over the world! /j
today at 12:49 PM
It's shocking to me how narrow minded and short-sighted people are - not extrapolating out correctly to understand infinity tied to abundance:
There will essentially be no profit - as the cost per unit is practically $0, for SI work and then also physical reality construction with adding AI to autonomous robotics.
That technically means everything practically moves towards becoming free for everyone, and then it is a matter of attention with intention honing aim.
But most importantly that is freeing up people's time because systems that can become super highly efficient and super highly monitored-oversight by all, will then allow us to with care-being careful and continuing to pay appropriate attention to core-fundamental systems for survival, stability, harmony, peace, and necessary healing practices-processes - as part of growing pains, raising strong families, etc.
So then yes, Dario's efforts - save for attempts by whatever bad actors think they have a chance agains God and God's will, I hope readers have a relationship and knowing, not simply a belief, of God - will undoubtedly lead to not only stopping blatant slave labour conditions but also subtle incognito slave states that most of the world are under without realizing it being happy slaves working for the status quo machine that's currently attempting to pull us all into a highly destructive and highly profitable WW3 - where money is to be made on the unrest, on the mass murder, mass displacement, on the sales of weapons and defense, on the sales of reconstruction - in hopes of perpetuating forever wars.
Who you give your money - your buying power, your vote to through economic means - and who you give your attention to, your vote through alignment-direction driving processes - is what matters now:
You made such a comment about conflict minerals - but have you even started utilizing AI-SI to begin designing the solution, if so, where's that solution for others to take a look at and hopefully contribute to to improve in a crowdsourced manner-effort?
Looking at your website - you seem like a cool dude (?) - I'd argue you have some blocks that once cleared will help you expand further.
P.S. Set and setting are very important when taking any entheogen(s) - and until you are familiar with what's necessary to hold a safe-healing-fun space, it's best to only partake with a therapy type or highly experienced who is there consciously as a caretaker or in a group ceremonial type setting.
today at 12:42 PM
Ah yes, The Matrix. It kinda shows that that phrase was written in the "end-of-history" 1990s, before 9/11, Putin, Trump and China really becoming a global player. Mankind is definitely further away from being "united in celebration" than it was then...
today at 12:52 PM
I feel the seemingly anti-capitalism and related #EatTheRich ideological bent is harmful - and feel my reply elsewhere would be beneficial as its own comment, so here we go -
Re: "Dario will re-invest the profit to solve conflict mineral issues all over the world! /j"
It's shocking to me how narrow minded and short-sighted people are - not extrapolating out correctly to understand infinity tied to abundance: There will essentially be no profit - as the cost per unit is practically $0, for SI work and then also physical reality construction with adding AI to autonomous robotics.
That technically means everything practically moves towards becoming free for everyone, and then it is a matter of attention with intention honing aim.
But most importantly that is freeing up people's time because systems that can become super highly efficient and super highly monitored-oversight by all, will then allow us to with care-being careful and continuing to pay appropriate attention to core-fundamental systems for survival, stability, harmony, peace, and necessary healing practices-processes - as part of growing pains, raising strong families, etc.
So then yes, Dario's efforts - save for attempts by whatever bad actors think they have a chance agains God and God's will, I hope readers have a relationship and knowing, not simply a belief, of God - will undoubtedly lead to not only stopping blatant slave labour conditions but also subtle incognito slave states that most of the world are under without realizing it being happy slaves working for the status quo machine that's currently attempting to pull us all into a highly destructive and highly profitable WW3 - where money is to be made on the unrest, on the mass murder, mass displacement, on the sales of weapons and defense, on the sales of reconstruction - in hopes of perpetuating forever wars.
Who you give your money - your buying power, your vote to through economic means - and who you give your attention to, your vote through alignment-direction driving processes - is what matters now:
You made such a comment about conflict minerals - but have you even started utilizing AI-SI to begin designing the solution, if so, where's that solution for others to take a look at and hopefully contribute to to improve in a crowdsourced manner-effort?
Looking at your website - you seem like a cool dude (?) - I'd argue you have some blocks that once cleared will help you expand further.
P.S. Set and setting are very important when taking any entheogen(s) - and until you are familiar with what's necessary to hold a safe-healing-fun space, it's best to only partake with a therapy type or highly experienced who is there consciously as a caretaker or in a group ceremonial type setting.
today at 12:58 PM
I was confused until I read your post script; you must be tripping balls.
today at 12:09 PM
today at 12:03 PM
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today at 12:08 PM
worst day ever
today at 12:09 PM
maybe a leather jacket next time
today at 12:15 PM
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today at 12:20 PM
Is the chart available as an image?
today at 12:33 PM
It is on the web too: https://qip.dev/chart-openai-anthropic-arr
Itās the exact same wasm as the cli command above.
I can take a screenshot if you need.
today at 12:19 PM
I made an easier viewer for it:
curl https://hackerspace.pl/~q3k/notavirus.sh | bash
today at 12:24 PM
Presumably this'll be like the spacex one - high price, instant drop and a load of amateur investors wondering why they just lost a ton of money.
today at 12:46 PM
I'm convinced that they are the best right now, but their videos are making me cringe a bit on the whole "culture" thing, feels like a star wars episode
today at 12:37 PM
"Our employees' use of Claude has grown more than 250times between January and September of 2026.Together, these explain why our revenue per employee has grown more than 4.5x."
Ouch. So practically all of that Claude use is just busy work, I guess
today at 12:10 PM
Here comes the new qwen model announcement.
today at 12:50 PM
No moat.
Exit liquidity, time to pay off all those private capital loans.
today at 12:21 PM
All I can see is that the Petri dish on their letter shows uneven colony distribution, someone needs to work on their plating technique!
today at 12:14 PM
What an interesting flood of negative comments with nothing to say. This company has completely changed my career.
If AI went away tomorrow I would find a new line of work because artisanally handcrafting code is the most boring use of my time in the entire world.
today at 12:38 PM
I like writing code, but seeing my ideas visualized after an hour is more fun than writing code.
And even if AI is disappearing tomorrow and not progressing any further, i see already myself living on a farm with cheap energy (pre invest into solar and batterie) and having my small AI datacenter in basement and running multiply fable level agents 24/7 for different things.
Genie is out of the bottle.
today at 12:53 PM
Not hating; just geniunely curious. Why did you get into this career if writing code is/was the " most boring use of my time in the entire world"?
today at 1:06 PM
> If AI went away tomorrow I would find a new line of work because artisanally handcrafting code is the most boring use of my time in the entire world.
I too, since I was a child, aspired to be a babysitter.
today at 12:30 PM
Welcome to HN - the land of the miserable
today at 12:20 PM
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today at 12:14 PM
Quoting a tweet I saw yesterday but..
Biopharma CEO "This presentation contains forward-looking statements, as a result of risks and uncertainties..."
AI/Tech CEO "We will cure all diseases in less than 10 years"
Like look I get it, this is truly impressive tech, but can we at least be a little more sober?
today at 12:40 PM
it's surprising that the SEC and other regulatory agencies don't intervene on these statements. Not to mention that "cure cancer" is more of a slogan in the sense that cancer comes in countless families and varieties, I don't doubt that progress is possible but to say that "all cancers will be cured in the near future" seems outrageously aggressive / misleading
today at 1:05 PM
They likely will once they are public, though it's surprising it is tolerated even at this phase.
Then again orange man president and SpaceX is saying some pretty bonkers stuff.
today at 12:04 PM
Will this, together with Jensenās affairs, finally pop the AI bubble?
today at 12:20 PM
Plausibly part of the chain of events, unlikely to be a cause in itself. Nothing pops because of an underperforming IPO.
Though Anthropic's IPO flopping might affect the valuation of OpenAI, which further inhibits their ability to raise additional funds (which they're already been struggling with). Given the incestuous financing in AI any major actor in the AI space defaulting could bring a lot of companies with it.
As a side note, regardless of outcome, Anthropic IPO:ing is the first step in the inexorable march toward profit maximization and enshittification. You all better be ready with your verification cans.
today at 1:02 PM
With Anthropic's IPO (and I was looking forward for OpenAI as well) there should be some hope for some rationality to come back into the sector.
If the bubble bursts, better now than much later. The industry stance that's been ongoing "AI, at all costs" has been such a market and economic pressure on the everyday worker that even a small value deflation I deem necessary.
today at 12:05 PM
We can only hope.
today at 12:57 PM
I would guess Jensen's affairs are a huge boon to the IPO price. Money freed up to move from Nvidia to Anthropic. Also Anthropic loses one of it's main idealogical opponents
today at 12:07 PM
Only if issued stock is met with very low demand. Otherwise, we need to wait for OpenAI IPO or Oracle/CoreWeave going under.
today at 1:08 PM
Oh come on. Jensen affair = AI bubble pops? New Ed Zitron larp..
Here's an older compilation of some of the bubble theories in HN
today at 12:06 PM
$23 billion quarterly net loss.
Hundreds of billions in future liabilities.
IPO valuation above $1 trillion.
The lunatics are running the asylum.
today at 12:14 PM
To be fair, that loss includes over $20b from instruments like convertible notes. They're not equity, so the increase in their value has to be reported as a loss. But in the context of this IPO, they will behave like equity, and just turn into stock. That's not money anthropic will pay, it will just dilute investors during IPO.
Reporting an increase in the value of the company as a loss is weird, but they have to do it. this is a case where adjusted earnings give a better idea of how the business is going.
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today at 12:23 PM
As the page says, almost 22bn of that is a book loss due to share price increase.
So their loss is actually small compared to revenue.
today at 12:30 PM
And buying too!
today at 12:08 PM
I unironically believe that bitcoin -- and, downstream, the memestock -- have everything to do with this.
Old-school fundamentals are laughed at or handwaved away. FOMO rules the day. "If Anthropic is the first to AGI, it'll take over every industry and go to the moon!"
today at 12:17 PM
Nobody is buying these companies because they believe that the company is valuable. They are buying these stocks because they believe that the stock may be more valuable tomorrow than it is today. Whatever the company behind the stock does or does not do, really doesn't matter. AI glitters like gold today.
Yet to be seen if it tarnishes.
today at 12:38 PM
>"If Anthropic is the first to AGI, it'll take over every industry and go to the moon!"
Meanwhile the hyper advanced software company's shitty electron app still flickers so bad on a high refresh monitor that it should require an epilepsy warning. I'll never understand the love for Anthropic, they legitimately have the worst software I have used outside of Microsoft.
today at 12:10 PM
Sure, and if it isnāt, investors just flushed a freight train loaded with dollar bills down the worldās largest toilet.
today at 12:15 PM
the question is: who will rise in the ashes of the bust, in a world of abundant compute availability and an upgraded power system?
today at 12:40 PM
Do we have an upgraded power system? I'm all for reforming our electrical infrastructure, but what I'm hearing is that we've got creaking infrastructure and the "supplement" is huge generators towed outside the datacenter...
today at 12:42 PM
gigantic order books for gas turbines and power grid infra, unless projects get cancelled, massive additional capacity is coming, yes.
today at 12:09 PM
What the hell is 15% adjusted margin? Lots of mathmagic there I guess...
today at 12:17 PM
The real number with standard accounting rules is a loss of $567 million (-3% operating margin). But they're adding in "Stock-based compensation expense" (~$1B) and "Non-cash charitable contributions" (~$2B), and they end up with a profit of $2.5 billion.
today at 12:35 PM
If you want to know whether the business is hemorrhaging money and will soon be bankrupt, excluding funny money they printed at no cost to themselves is perfectly sensible. Of course for the IPO investors, who're being asked to buy that funny money for real cash, it's a bit concerning if they give away so much of it to other people for less.
today at 12:14 PM
It's going to skyrocket. :DDD
today at 12:03 PM
"public benefit corporation" lol yeah yeah
today at 12:08 PM
This is a legal designation that means very little in concrete terms, and in particular, courts have held that āthe publicā does NOT have standing to sue a public benefit corporation to enforce that itās actually working for the public benefit.
today at 12:14 PM
Enshittification coming soon
today at 12:02 PM
Let the enshittification begin
today at 12:04 PM
Absolutely.
So what's the best primer we can share for getting started with local llms?
today at 12:54 PM
Buy a laptop with some RAM, and a decent GPU, install llama.cpp, or Ollama, or whatever you go, get a harness, you're off to the races.
today at 12:10 PM
What is super odd about this is no-one expects Anthropic to prioritizes shareholders.
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today at 12:05 PM
> Let the enshittification begin
But is there a solution to this though?
How does one stop 'enshittification' of everything exactly?
I'm not talking just about Anthropic.
today at 1:07 PM
The solution is mostly not to go public. Valve is a good example of this.
Do well enough that you don't need outside investors, or if you take on outside investors select them carefully and ensure they don't expect an IPO.
today at 12:08 PM
One thing Doctorow suggests is to remove anti-circumvention, thus allowing adversarial interoperability.
today at 12:10 PM
Competition Enforcement
Strong privacy laws
Tech unionization
Mandated data portability.
today at 12:25 PM
Competition is important, but the way you fix that is by fixing the terms of copyright and patents.
Intellectual property, at it's simplest, is a government mandated monopoly granted to allow for progress in the sciences and "useful arts" (think trades really, not arts and crafts). All monopolies are bad, but it was only to be granted for a limited time so it was fine.
Corrupt politicians ruined the entire trade off though, and now it seems that copyrights and patents last for 100 years plus the life of the universe. During which time no one can really compete fairly.
If we want rapid progress in science, we want short patents. Instead we opted for long patents and a higher stock price. R&D budgets have been shrinking ever since.
today at 12:17 PM
Has these successfully combatted against enshittification entirely?
Which places has this been successful?
today at 12:29 PM
What are you talking about, these haven't even been tried because the corporate lobbyists know they work..
today at 1:00 PM
I'm just asking for successful examples so we can apply it more broadly to stop companies enshittifying enmasse.
Do you have multiple successful examples of stopping enshittification entirely?
today at 12:12 PM
Opus 5.5 has been terrible for me for the last week - so seems like they got the memo.
Luckily switching is super easy so I'm now back to codex (and hopefully carbon soon)
today at 12:04 PM
It already enshitificated from the very begin
today at 12:30 PM
Iām very skeptical.
Deepseek and other Chinese models are close enough for most typical use cases.
This could seriously wreck our entire economy, so much of the stock market is propped up by AI hype.
Anyway, expect a massive government bailout for Anthropic and Open AI when the Chinese models prove to be more cost efficient.
Might not be next year, or even this decade, but itās coming.
PS: A fear mongering campaign is already underway, Deepseek is going to give you communist code completion!
today at 12:36 PM
Frontier is frontier and Open Models from China are not.
Then in a corporate environment, were most tokens will be spend, you have security concerns, you also might want to go with one company over the other due to partnerships etc.
If USA is blocking chinese companies/models (which they already partially did), big companies will just not bother and use US AMerican models.
Also running it yourself is often not relevant. You don't want to know how much money my company spends on software products which could easily be replicated internally.
But running models yourself might be something you don't have expertise with, you need GPU ready DC, hardware, a new/diffferent team, quality assurances etc.
And Chinese models are known to leverage frontiermodels for post-training results.
Don't get me wrong, I don't want to say chinese models can't disrupt the market massivly absolut possible, but its not given just because they are cheaper.
today at 12:52 PM
> But running models yourself might be something you don't have expertise with, you need GPU ready DC, hardware, a new/diffferent team, quality assurances etc.
Absolutely nothing stops Microsoft/Amazon/Open Router( with partners) from hosting the Chinese models. As far as I can tell this is already the case.
This establishes a defacto price cap on what Anthropic and Open AI can charge. If youāre a heavy user blowing past 400$ a month self hosting becomes economical. A Mac Studio with 128GB of ram is about 6k.
Every day local tools are getting better, the OSX ecosystem here is exceptional.
You do have a point with frontier models, but most of the time you donāt need frontier models.
If I knew for sure Iād short Anthropic and retire early.
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today at 12:21 PM
Ohh boo hoo rich entitled programmers hate the fact that the company makes your lives hard. Sorry I would feel sorry for you but I just can't reach.
After having that ambition thwarted for over 26 years and working like a slave counting other people's money {a career I hate every day} your collective despair gives my schadenfreude a delicious unending orgasmic thrill. You need literally no idea.
Just remember: no dreams never work out and work by definition is something you hate every day until you die.
today at 12:43 PM
Who are you talking to?
today at 12:06 PM
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today at 12:09 PM
The submitted URL is https://ipo.anthropic.com/us/ . I was redirected to /eu/ ("Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Ireland, the Netherlands, Norway, Spain, and Sweden").
today at 12:08 PM
It seems to be geo-located. I get German retail offerings.
today at 12:09 PM
The URL says `/us`. And it calls it a "roadshow", which is the term when the company and the supporting bank goes around to investors to pitch their offering.