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<ul><li>Anthropic positioned itself as the large language model (LLM) for businesses with their mid-2023 update to Claude, adding a 100K token context window (versus the 8K of OpenAI’s GPT-4) so companies could do the now-standard process of RAG plus zero-shot prompting to retrieve proprietary data and inject it into their prompts.</li><li>With Anthropic’s March launch of Claude 3 Opus, OpenAI’s GPT-4 has competition for its crown as the state of the art LLM for B2B, with Perplexity CEO Aravind Srinivas deeming Opus the best LLM on the market.</li><li>Sacra estimates that Anthropic is at $316M annual recurring revenue (ARR), up 1,341% year-over-year from $22M ARR in March 2023 with a 61x forward revenue multiple on their last valuation of $18.4B, monetizing like OpenAI both with its developer tools API via usage and offering a prosumer chat experience on subscription.</li></ul>

Anthropic positioned itself as the large language model (LLM) for businesses with their mid-2023 update to Claude, adding a 100K token context window (versus the 8K of OpenAI’s GPT-4) so companies could do the now-standard process of RAG plus zero-shot prompting to retrieve proprietary data and inject it into their prompts.With Anthropic’s March launch of Claude 3 Opus, OpenAI’s GPT-4 has competition for its crown as the state of the art LLM for B2B, with Perplexity CEO Aravind Srinivas deeming Opus the best LLM on the market.Sacra estimates that Anthropic is at $316M annual recurring revenue (ARR), up 1,341% year-over-year from $22M ARR in March 2023 with a 61x forward revenue multiple on their last valuation of $18.4B, monetizing like OpenAI both with its developer tools API via usage and offering a prosumer chat experience on subscription.

<ul><li>Mid 2022, Scale’s bread-and-butter of autonomous vehicle (AV) data labeling workloads went into a decline alongside falling R&amp;D investment and VC funding, with GM’s Cruise (2021 valuation: $30B) suspending operations and Argo AI (2021 valuation: $7.B), Lyft (NASDAQ: LYFT), and Uber (NYSE: UBER) shutting down their AV programs.</li><li>In 2023, Scale’s revenue exploded to $760M ARR, up 162% YoY, with $18B in capital inflows to foundational model companies like OpenAI ($1.3B ARR in 2023), Anthropic ($200M ARR in 2023) and Cohere and generative AI apps like Runway ($237M raised) and Harvey ($106M raised) alongside the integration of gen AI-features into every app.</li><li>The very source of Scale’s near-term revenue re-acceleration poses the gravest long-term existential threat to its business, with LLMs getting closer to parity with humans on data-labeling tasks while being cheap and 20x as fast.</li></ul>

Mid 2022, Scale’s bread-and-butter of autonomous vehicle (AV) data labeling workloads went into a decline alongside falling R&amp;D investment and VC funding, with GM’s Cruise (2021 valuation: $30B) suspending operations and Argo AI (2021 valuation: $7.B), Lyft (NASDAQ: LYFT), and Uber (NYSE: UBER) shutting down their AV programs.In 2023, Scale’s revenue exploded to $760M ARR, up 162% YoY, with $18B in capital inflows to foundational model companies like OpenAI ($1.3B ARR in 2023), Anthropic ($200M ARR in 2023) and Cohere and generative AI apps like Runway ($237M raised) and Harvey ($106M raised) alongside the integration of gen AI-features into every app.The very source of Scale’s near-term revenue re-acceleration poses the gravest long-term existential threat to its business, with LLMs getting closer to parity with humans on data-labeling tasks while being cheap and 20x as fast.

<ul><li>The surprise consumer success of ChatGPT and the compute needed to support it put OpenAI on track to build the most capital-intensive startup in Silicon Valley history: so far, they’ve raised roughly $13.3B en route to $1B of (unprofitable) revenue in 2023.</li><li>This level of capital investment and cash burn necessitated a deep-pocketed, long-term partner like Microsoft—making it the single most influential stakeholder in OpenAI despite its minority ownership in the for-profit entity and lack of board seat in the controlling non-profit board.</li><li>Developers have raised $5B+ to build startups on top of OpenAI in 2023 alone, making an ecosystem bet on OpenAI as the latest platform shift—now, it’s even more clear that they need to design for optionality between OpenAI and competitors.</li></ul>

The surprise consumer success of ChatGPT and the compute needed to support it put OpenAI on track to build the most capital-intensive startup in Silicon Valley history: so far, they’ve raised roughly $13.3B en route to $1B of (unprofitable) revenue in 2023.This level of capital investment and cash burn necessitated a deep-pocketed, long-term partner like Microsoft—making it the single most influential stakeholder in OpenAI despite its minority ownership in the for-profit entity and lack of board seat in the controlling non-profit board.Developers have raised $5B+ to build startups on top of OpenAI in 2023 alone, making an ecosystem bet on OpenAI as the latest platform shift—now, it’s even more clear that they need to design for optionality between OpenAI and competitors.

<ul><li>Anthropic hit $100M annual recurring revenue (ARR) midway through 2023, up ~1,900% from only $10M at the end of 2022, with a $4.1B valuation for a forward revenue multiple of 41x.</li><li>OpenAI’s GPT-4 is the best LLM for reasoning and complex tasks, but it’s expensive and slow—opening the door for companies like Anthropic (Claude) and Cohere (Command) to target developers with cheaper and faster models.</li><li>As with on-demand companies like Uber and Lyft in the early 2010’s, the initial hype cycle has seen billions invested in the LLMs deemed most likely to win—$14.5B into OpenAI, Anthropic, and Cohere alone—creating capital moats as barriers to future competition.</li></ul>

Anthropic hit $100M annual recurring revenue (ARR) midway through 2023, up ~1,900% from only $10M at the end of 2022, with a $4.1B valuation for a forward revenue multiple of 41x.OpenAI’s GPT-4 is the best LLM for reasoning and complex tasks, but it’s expensive and slow—opening the door for companies like Anthropic (Claude) and Cohere (Command) to target developers with cheaper and faster models.As with on-demand companies like Uber and Lyft in the early 2010’s, the initial hype cycle has seen billions invested in the LLMs deemed most likely to win—$14.5B into OpenAI, Anthropic, and Cohere alone—creating capital moats as barriers to future competition.

<ul><li>Ramp recently announced a suite of GPT-4 powered services across expense management, vendor management and bookkeeping.</li><li>GPT unlocks the ability for any company to tap into advanced data science techniques focused on the understanding of language.</li><li>Now, we can offer them these services at a fraction of the cost because it costs us significantly less to offer it.</li></ul>

Ramp recently announced a suite of GPT-4 powered services across expense management, vendor management and bookkeeping.GPT unlocks the ability for any company to tap into advanced data science techniques focused on the understanding of language.Now, we can offer them these services at a fraction of the cost because it costs us significantly less to offer it.

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