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Applied AI·August 15, 2026·1 min read

Anthropic’s quarterly revenue passed $11.5bn, up more than 14-fold

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An annualized ~$46B run rate with positive adjusted operating income means frontier models are already a real P&L business, not a research cost center. If you’re an enterprise buyer, expect faster product velocity and harder pricing power from top labs as they lean into public-market narratives.

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Sources: Mercor and other firms gathering data for AI labs are driving demand to buy or license internal datasets from startups shutting down or being acquired

Internal exhaust—Slack threads, tickets, CRM logs—from dead or acquired startups is turning into a secondary asset class for model training. If you’re on either side of a transaction, treat data rights and retention as a negotiated line item, not boilerplate, and audit what could walk out the door into someone else’s pretraining mix.