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Original: Simon Willison · 29/05/2026
Summary
Anthropic’s run-rate revenue has surged to $47 billion, reflecting significant growth in enterprise adoption since their last funding round.Key Insights
“our run-rate revenue crossed $47 billion earlier this month” — Announcement regarding Anthropic’s Series H funding.
“no company — in any industry, in any era — that has scaled organic revenue this quickly at this level as Anthropic” — Comment from Axios CEO Jim VandeHei on Anthropic’s revenue growth.
“lying to investors who just put in $65 billion would be securities fraud” — Discussion on the credibility of Anthropic’s reported revenue figures.
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29th May 2026 The most interesting thing about Anthropic’s 47 billion earlier this month. Anthropic have made a bit of a habit of sharing their “run-rate revenue” in this kind of announcement, which is an annualized projection of their current revenue - typically calculated by taking the most recent month and multiplying by 12. Earlier this year: Apr 6, 2026 in Anthropic expands partnership with Google and Broadcom: “Our run-rate revenue has now surpassed 9 billion at the end of 2025.” Feb 12, 2026 in Anthropic raises 14 billion, with this figure growing over 10x annually in each of those past three years.” I had Claude Opus 4.8 make me this chart using Matplotlib (Claude: “a data line chart is more straightforward matplotlib work—not really a design piece”): Back in April Axios CEO Jim VandeHei wrote that he could not find “any company — in any industry, in any era — that has scaled organic revenue this quickly at this level as Anthropic” - and that was when they were at a paltry 6 billion in annualized run-rate!) Ed Zitron was extremely skeptical of that 47 billion figure. I’ve seen a few people dismiss this as untrustworthy, because the numbers come from Anthropic. That doesn’t hold up: these numbers were included in announcements of their fundraises, and lying to investors who just put in $65 billion would be securities fraud. They’re even less likely to lie given that the real numbers will no doubt come out in their S-1 when they file for their IPO.Related Articles
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Originally published at https://simonwillison.net/2026/May/29/anthropic/#atom-everything.