Anthropic’s IPO filing reveals its strategy for keeping enterprise customers hooked
THE SO WHAT
More than half of Anthropic’s $100k+ customers using both Claude Platform and a first-party app shows the model-plus-application bundle is working as a lock-in strategy. When you pick a frontier lab, you’re increasingly picking an ecosystem, not just an API endpoint.
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