Anthropic brings Wall Street an AI bull case
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AI companies for years have promised that smarter models would be worth the staggering cost to build them. Anthropic on Wednesday made that case in cash. The company presented eye-popping financials to investors, saying it was cash flow positive in the third quarter, with revenue surging nearly 50% to $16.8 billion compared with the April-to-June period. Why it matters: As Wall Street broadly spent the day fearing an AI bubble, Anthropic offered what investors have been desperate to see: evidence that frontier AI can be a sustainable business. State of play: As concerns about the AI trade pushed the S&P 500 down by more than 1% for the first time in 53 sessions, Anthropic showed off a balance sheet that offered the promise of profitable AI, sources told Axios.
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