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<ul><li>Jenni AI has grown their annual recurring revenue (ARR) by 925% since the ChatGPT-pocalypse that decimated horizontal, prosumer businesses built on GPT-3.</li><li>Jenni AI niched down into the academic essay-writing use case in 2022, getting to ~$560K ARR by the end of the year after verticalizing their “ChatGPT for college students”.</li><li>Sacra estimates that Jenni AI is at $5.1M annual recurring revenue (ARR) as of April 2024, growing 481% year-over-year.</li></ul>

Jenni AI has grown their annual recurring revenue (ARR) by 925% since the ChatGPT-pocalypse that decimated horizontal, prosumer businesses built on GPT-3.Jenni AI niched down into the academic essay-writing use case in 2022, getting to ~$560K ARR by the end of the year after verticalizing their “ChatGPT for college students”.Sacra estimates that Jenni AI is at $5.1M annual recurring revenue (ARR) as of April 2024, growing 481% year-over-year.

Jenni AI: The $5M/year Chegg Of Generative AI

<ul><li>The launch of ChatGPT in November 2022 decimated Jasper and Copy.ai’s prosumer and SMB businesses, with revenue going flat/into decline as customers replaced their $50/month subscriptions to Jasper/Copy.ai with free and $20/mo premium subscriptions to ChatGPT.</li><li>With its 32K token context window and superiority on reasoning tasks, the launch of GPT-4 in March 2023 enabled AI writing tools to re-position as enterprise solutions that could orchestrate complex, multi-tool workflows.</li><li>For these companies where revenue might have been flat-to-down during 2023, the faster they can shift the underlying revenue towards low-churn enterprise revenue, the faster that growth will re-accelerate.</li></ul>

The launch of ChatGPT in November 2022 decimated Jasper and Copy.ai’s prosumer and SMB businesses, with revenue going flat/into decline as customers replaced their $50/month subscriptions to Jasper/Copy.ai with free and $20/mo premium subscriptions to ChatGPT.With its 32K token context window and superiority on reasoning tasks, the launch of GPT-4 in March 2023 enabled AI writing tools to re-position as enterprise solutions that could orchestrate complex, multi-tool workflows.For these companies where revenue might have been flat-to-down during 2023, the faster they can shift the underlying revenue towards low-churn enterprise revenue, the faster that growth will re-accelerate.

<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>CoreWeave started in 2017 as a crypto mining company using graphics processing units (GPUs) to mine Ethereum—and then pivoted in 2019 to AI, repurposing its GPU clusters for the heavy computational demands of AI workflows.</li><li>Sacra estimates that CoreWeave generated $465M of revenue in 2023, up 1,760% from $25M in 2022, with CoreWeave projecting $2.3B in 2024 based on enterprise deals in the pipeline.</li><li>Nvidia has partnered closely with CoreWeave—investing in the company and using its 98% market share over scarce chips—to build it up as a counterbalance to cloud compute giants Amazon, Google and Microsoft, which are each building competitive AI hardware.</li></ul>

CoreWeave started in 2017 as a crypto mining company using graphics processing units (GPUs) to mine Ethereum—and then pivoted in 2019 to AI, repurposing its GPU clusters for the heavy computational demands of AI workflows.Sacra estimates that CoreWeave generated $465M of revenue in 2023, up 1,760% from $25M in 2022, with CoreWeave projecting $2.3B in 2024 based on enterprise deals in the pipeline.Nvidia has partnered closely with CoreWeave—investing in the company and using its 98% market share over scarce chips—to build it up as a counterbalance to cloud compute giants Amazon, Google and Microsoft, which are each building competitive AI hardware.

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CoreWeave: The $465M/year Cloud GPU Startup Growing 1,760% YoY

TL;DR: CoreWeave hit $465M of revenue in 2023, up 1,760% from 2022, reselling GPU compute to fuel the generative AI boom. For more, check out...

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