Comment by nba456_
4 days ago
Sounds like cope. You can't claim the 'rent market on intelligence' never materialized when revenue is absolutely booming for Anthropic/etc.
4 days ago
Sounds like cope. You can't claim the 'rent market on intelligence' never materialized when revenue is absolutely booming for Anthropic/etc.
Sure, just not nearly enough for sustainability I think. I'd reserve that call for the moment we can stop bathing in free VC money by using subscriptions.
Also, as far as my own use goes, I found that the capabilities/price ratio of DeepSeek's offering is very hard to beat. It's really good enough so the thing that matters to me (besides table stakes like uptime, latency, etc.) is price at this point.
They are just repeating old tropes about unprofitability without reassessing
Do you have a source for Anthropic being profitable?
Of course they are “profitable”, Dario said so last month (if you accept a definition of “profitability” under which every tech startup is profitable by the day they have their first paying customer).
https://www.forbes.com/sites/jonmarkman/2026/08/17/anthropic...
Anthropic themselves claim to be profitable, fwiw.
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https://thenextweb.com/news/anthropic-q3-revenue-16-8bn-ipo
Do you have proof of unprofitability?
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If someone gives you one you're just going to say you don't believe it, so why bother?
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