Anthropic Touts 14-Fold Jump in Revenue for Would-Be Investors

Anthropic has reportedly shared a substantial jump in quarterly revenue with would-be investors.

The artificial intelligence startup saw revenues for the second quarter increase more than 14-fold since the same period in 2025, Bloomberg News reported Friday (Aug. 14), citing documents viewed by the news outlet.

Those documents showed Anthropic reporting a preliminary revenue figure of more than $11.5 billion for its most recently completed quarter, compared to $787 million during the same quarter last year. The company also reported positive adjusted operating income, the report added.

As Bloomberg noted, this growth is happening as Anthropic is competing with rival OpenAI for enterprise customers. Anthropic had been seen as the underdog in this race, but has since enjoyed a wave of corporate adoption of its products for uses like coding.

The report added that Anthropic’s annualized revenue/run rate topped $47 billion in May. OpenAI has an annual run rate of more than $40 billion, though the two companies may not calculate those numbers the same way, Bloomberg said.

In other Anthropic news, the Financial Times (FT) reported last week that investors expect the company to pursue a valuation of at least $2 trillion in an October initial public offering (IPO), a figure that would present the biggest stock-market debut ever.

Six Anthropic backers told FT that the startup’s rapid revenue growth could justify a valuation more than double its most recent level, which hit a $965 billion valuation in May after new investment.

The report noted the risks still facing Anthropic, including competition from lower-cost Chinese models, increasing regulatory pressure and a continuing dispute with the U.S. government. A temporary Commerce Department ban on its leading models helped slow revenue growth in June, although investors said business later recovered.

Also last week, PYMNTS wrote about efforts by major companies to make AI content traceable. This came after Anthropic began adding watermarks to its output to signify AI-generated content, following similar measures by Apple, Canon and Google.

“The internet’s response to AI slop has mostly worked backward. Platforms scan content after it is already uploaded, then try to guess whether a machine wrote it, an inherently probabilistic bet that it is losing ground as synthetic content gets cheaper to produce,” that report said.

“Anthropic, Apple, Canon and Google are each building a different layer underneath that guesswork: proof of where content came from, established the moment it is created, not detecting after the fact.”