Anthropic CEO: First-quarter revenue and usage surged 80 times, exceeding company expectations

Mars Finance News: On Wednesday, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei said at the San Francisco Code With Claude developer conference that the company’s first-quarter revenue and customer AI usage saw an 80-fold increase, which came as a surprise even to the company. He said the company had originally planned for a 10-fold annual growth rate, but the actual growth far exceeded expectations, leading to tight pressure on computing power supply. Anthropic’s annualized revenue rose from nearly $1 billion at the end of 2024 to $9 billion by the end of the year, and by early April this year it had jumped to $30 billion. Strong demand for Claude Code and work agents enabled the company to nearly complete its full-year forecast ahead of time last month. To ease the pressure on computing power, Anthropic signed, over the past month, contracts totaling 10 gigawatts for computing power supply with Amazon and Google, and on Thursday announced that it will use all the computing power of its first data center, Colossus 1, located in Memphis, within the next month. Amodei said the company will continue to obtain more computing power as much as possible.