Anthropic is on track to turn a profit much faster than OpenAI

WALL STREET JOURNAL

Anthropic, which has a growing number of business users because of the capabilities of its Claude chatbot in coding and other arenas, expects to break even for the first time in 2028, the documents show.

By contrast, OpenAI forecasts its operating losses that year to swell to about $74 billion—or roughly three-fourths of revenue—thanks to ballooning spending on computing costs. The ChatGPT-maker also expects to burn through roughly 14 times as much cash as Anthropic before turning a profit in 2030.

The financial road maps, both shared with investors this summer, suggest that the world’s two most-valuable AI startups are taking vastly different approaches to growing their businesses.

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