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<ul><li>Sacra estimates that Together AI hit $44M in annual recurring revenue (ARR) in April with their developer experience-centric layer built on top of CoreWeave and Lambda Labs’s GPU cloud products.</li><li>Companies use cloud GPU hosts Together AI, CoreWeave, and Lambda Labs to use Nvidia (NASDAQ: NVDA) graphics processing units (GPUs) to train AI models on their datasets, fine-tune them, and deploy them into production.</li><li>Sacra estimates that Together AI hit $44M in annualized revenue in April 2024, up 2095% year-over-year, with 90% of revenue coming from sales of bundled on-demand GPU compute and training via Together Inference and ~45% gross margin.</li></ul>

Sacra estimates that Together AI hit $44M in annual recurring revenue (ARR) in April with their developer experience-centric layer built on top of CoreWeave and Lambda Labs’s GPU cloud products.Companies use cloud GPU hosts Together AI, CoreWeave, and Lambda Labs to use Nvidia (NASDAQ: NVDA) graphics processing units (GPUs) to train AI models on their datasets, fine-tune them, and deploy them into production.Sacra estimates that Together AI hit $44M in annualized revenue in April 2024, up 2095% year-over-year, with 90% of revenue coming from sales of bundled on-demand GPU compute and training via Together Inference and ~45% gross margin.

Together AI: The $44M/year Vercel Of Generative AI

<ul><li>The release of ChatGPT was one of the best things to happen to us.</li><li>We added $100,000 MRR with influencer marketing.</li><li>We’re still hovering around 16% churn, but I’m still optimistic we can get that number down drastically.</li></ul>

The release of ChatGPT was one of the best things to happen to us.We added $100,000 MRR with influencer marketing.We’re still hovering around 16% churn, but I’m still optimistic we can get that number down drastically.

David Park, CEO And co-founder Of Jenni AI, On Prosumer Generative AI Apps post-ChatGPT

<ul><li>When we first started Copy.ai we took the Amazon/Jeff Bezos approach—what's going to be true 10 years from now?</li><li>Our platform was just built, and then GPT-4 came out.</li><li>It's a very, very hard core ROI number that they can adopt.</li></ul>

When we first started Copy.ai we took the Amazon/Jeff Bezos approach—what's going to be true 10 years from now?Our platform was just built, and then GPT-4 came out.It's a very, very hard core ROI number that they can adopt.

Chris Lu, co-founder Of Copy.Ai, On Generative AI In The Enterprise

<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>Perplexity hit $11M annual recurring revenue (ARR) with their AI-powered search tool.</li><li>Perplexity is at $11M ARR, up 37% monthly from $8M in January and $3M in October, with about 50M visits per month.</li><li>Perplexity has now positioned itself as the “Google Search for knowledge work”—designed for the 0.2% of queries longer than 10 words—monetizing with a $20/mo paid subscription.</li></ul>

Perplexity hit $11M annual recurring revenue (ARR) with their AI-powered search tool.Perplexity is at $11M ARR, up 37% monthly from $8M in January and $3M in October, with about 50M visits per month.Perplexity has now positioned itself as the “Google Search for knowledge work”—designed for the 0.2% of queries longer than 10 words—monetizing with a $20/mo paid subscription.

Perplexity: The $11M/year Cliff Notes For The Web Growing 4,272%

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Together AI: The $44M/year Vercel Of Generative AI

TL;DR: Sacra estimates that Together AI hit $44M in annual recurring revenue (ARR) in April with their developer experience-centric layer built on...

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David Park, CEO And co-founder Of Jenni AI, On Prosumer Generative AI Apps post-ChatGPT

Sacra interview with Jenni AI CEO and co-founder David Park

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Chris Lu, co-founder Of Copy.Ai, On Generative AI In The Enterprise

Sacra interview with Copy.ai co-founder Chris Lu

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Anthropic At $316M ARR

TL;DR: With the launch of Claude 3 Opus, Anthropic has cemented itself alongside OpenAI, Mistral and Google as one of the small handful of LLM...

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Perplexity: The $11M/year Cliff Notes For The Web Growing 4,272%

TL;DR: Last month, Perplexity hit $11M annual recurring revenue (ARR) with their AI-powered search tool. Their master plan hinges on using that...

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