Sources: Anthropic is likely to tell IPO investors that its potential revenue opportunities are above $30T, topping SpaceX's $28.5T; Uber predicted $6T in 2019
THE SO WHAT
A $30T “potential revenue” story is less a forecast than a signal that AI narratives are moving into total-addressable-economy territory. For operators, the takeaway isn’t the number—it’s that public-market expectations will pressure AI vendors toward broad horizontal plays and aggressive monetization, not narrow tooling.
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