Anthropic eyes public markets as compute costs mount

The company’s growth remains aggressive, with annualized revenue hitting $47 billion in May—a sharp climb from the $9 billion reported at the end of 2025. Despite this momentum, the broader sector faces scrutiny. Major corporations, including Uber, have begun questioning the immediate productivity of AI spending, fueling concerns that enterprise budgets could tighten. Amodei remains unfazed, characterizing current adoption as the early stages of a learning curve where businesses are still discovering how to integrate these tools into daily workflows.

Unlike OpenAI or xAI, Anthropic is eschewing the construction of proprietary data centers. Amodei noted that the firm prioritizes flexibility over the risk of overextending on infrastructure. This strategy forces a reliance on external capacity, recently highlighted by a partnership with Elon Musk’s xAI. That compute deal, disclosed in SpaceX’s S-1 filing, carries a staggering cost of $1.25 billion per month.