“Executives have, across the board, given their engineers free reign to burn as many tokens as they’d like, and while I severely doubt that Anthropic actually hit $50 billion in annualized revenue outside of not-quite-fraudulent non-GAAP measurements, I believe its revenue growth has come from an artificial boost from a tech industry searching for a reason to pay somebody money.”
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Executives across the board have given engineers free rein to burn tokens, Zitron severely doubts Anthropic actually hit $50 billion in annualized revenue outside of not-quite-fraudulent non-GAAP measurements, and he believes its revenue growth has come from an artificial boost from a tech industry searching for a reason to pay somebody money.
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Where and when Ed Zitron wrote it
Where's Your Ed At, AI Is Too Expensive, paragraph 102.
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- outside of not-quite-fraudulent non-GAAP measurements (scope, stated by the speaker)
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- outside of not-quite-fraudulent non-GAAP measurements
- I severely doubt / I believe
- $50 billion annualized (doubted)
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: Where's Your Ed At, AI Is Too Expensive
Executives have, across the board, given their engineers free reign to burn as many tokens as they’d like, and while I severely doubt that Anthropic actually hit $50 billion in annualized revenue outside of not-quite-fraudulent non-GAAP measurements, I believe its revenue growth has come from an artificial boost from a tech industry searching for a reason to pay somebody money.
- Where
- paragraph 102
- Published
- 2026-05-19
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- , live page
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- full text, public
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- Assessment wyea-ai-is-too-expensive-0d0948-a1: Current. Outcome: Can’t be checked. Not checked against evidence. Public date not recorded.
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