Anthropic grew 80-fold in a single quarter. Now it’s renting Elon Musk’s data center to cope |
Anthropic grew 80-fold in a single quarter. Now it’s renting Elon Musk’s data center to cope
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei said the AI company had planned for 10x growth, but instead, its revenue and usage grew 80-fold in the first quarter on an annualized basis, a surge he called “just crazy” and “too hard to handle.”
The company is growing so fast that its infrastructure has struggled to keep up, forcing it into an unlikely partnership with an industry rival: Elon Musk.
“That is the reason we have had difficulties with compute,” Amodei said during Anthropic’s developer conference in San Francisco Wednesday, CNBC reported.
Anthropic’s annualized revenue has climbed to $30 billion, a three-fold increase compared to last year. Much of this increase has been fueled by a wave of corporate customers including Uber and Netflix which are increasingly using Claude Code. Customers prefer Claude Code in some cases over competitors like Cursor because of its agentic abilities. Companies have also leveraged Claude’s API to embed the large language model into everything from customer service platforms to task automation.
“Software engineers are the ones who are fastest to adopt new technology,” Amodei said at the developer’s conference. “It’s........