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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>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.

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