"Anthropic's third-quarter revenue rose 45% to $16.8 billion"
This is great for Anthropic, but who is increasing their AI spending in this climate?
It’s actually not great, that’s a slowdown
The corporate partners, who are also often investors, and have an interest in ensuring the world sees genAI as utterly required.
Microsoft, SK Group, Meta, Google, Oracle, etc.
Wasn't their previous revenue increase more than twice as big?
That would very much not be great for Anthropic, they need to be accelerating growth to keep valuation, doubly so as interest rates on corporate bonds continue to rise.