Anthropic to Tell Investors It Has Potential Revenue of Basically the Entire US GDP

Conversations between companies and investors are largely a practice in the art of painting the rosiest picture possible. Anthropic is apparently planning on taking the practice to its logical conclusion. According to a report from the Wall Street Journal, the frontier AI lab is intending to tell investors that its potential revenue could top $30 trillion, which is the kind of number where you basically are daring people to call you full of shit. To be fair, Anthropic has set that figure as the total addressable market, which is basically every available dollar within a given category. So hitting that revenue figure would require the company to achieve a 100% monopoly. But it is by far the most aggressively optimistic picture of the AI space that anyone has offered—and that’s a market that includes perennial bullshit artists like Elon Musk. Speaking of, Musk’s SpaceX previously provided the biggest claim to a market when it went public earlier this year, launching with the largest IPO in history (though shares haven’t exactly held their value since then). At the time, Musk’s company offered investors an official claim to a $28.5 trillion market. Musk, of course, made an unofficial