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Anthropic’s $30B Revenue Crushes OpenAI

Anthropic hits $30B revenue, crushing OpenAI in the AI throne race.

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Meng Li
Apr 29, 2026
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Historic Moment!

Just now, a financial report destined for the business history books exploded like a deep-water bomb, completely shattering OpenAI’s growth myth.

The historic moment has arrived — Anthropic, the “Avengers” founded by OpenAI defectors, has officially reached $30 billion in annual revenue, surpassing OpenAI’s $24 billion in one fell swoop.

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Anthropic’s Annual Recurring Revenue (ARR) has broken through $30 billion.

At the beginning of 2025, Anthropic’s ARR was only $1 billion. In just 15 months, it multiplied 30 times.

This terrifying growth rate — from $1 billion to $30 billion in annual revenue in 15 months — is a miracle never seen before in U.S. business history. It makes even Google and Meta’s early growth look like they were crawling.

The fastest-growing company in American business history is not OpenAI, not NVIDIA, but a company founded in 2021 by former OpenAI employees.

The U.S. AI throne has officially changed hands!

OpenAI is now being mocked as “Anthropic’s little brother.” It has been surpassed in both revenue and valuation, and internal panic has triggered a “crazy copycat” mode.

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