Post by @troberts@theblower.au

2026-09-30 09:12 UTC

As keen as I am to declare the AI industry is a giant con, and that the leaked financials of Anthropic are proof of this ($4b revenue for a $40b loss, and $500b of future spending commitments) ... they were the 2025 numbers. I am inclinded to wait for 2026. For a few months in early 2026, there was a lot of "tokenmaxxing" which will make a rosier picture, but I also suspect that's well over now. #Anthropic #AI #AIBubble #LLMs

Replies (5)

@luciedigitalni@aus.social 2026-09-30 09:18

@troberts@theblower.au yes but higher revenue just means bigger losses. There is no path to profitability for these companies.

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@Dangerous_beans@aus.social 2026-09-30 09:17

@troberts@theblower.au there's little evidence that they earn money on running the models, so people using more tokens probably just made them lose more money

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@200ok@mastodon.social 2026-09-30 09:39

@troberts@theblower.au It's wild that they can attract investors after a $40b loss. But it's ok, they can break even on last year's numbers with a mere 17 million new max20 subscribers, or 80 of those enterprise customers with no cost controls who blow half a bil. Easy peasy...

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@hittitezombie@mastodon.me.uk 2026-09-30 11:20

@troberts@theblower.au Tokenmaxing should have caused them even more losses since no way they are charging enough to cover the cost, especially in early 2026.

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@love@thistlenfern.org 2026-10-01 15:08

@troberts@theblower.au I first read that as Bread Pirate 🥖🏴‍☠️🤣🤣💕

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