Anthropic announces annualized revenue exceeding $30 billion, meaning its monthly revenue surpassed $2.5 billion last month. Here are a few points worth discussing about this astonishing growth rate: 1. It has already surpassed OpenAI's $25 billion annualized revenue, while Anthropic's revenue in 2025 was only about 70% of OpenAI's. 2. Looking at Anthropic's annualized revenue growth: - December 2024: Revenue reached $1 billion; - End of 2025: Revenue hit $9 billion; - February 2026: Annualized revenue reached $14 billion; - March 2026: Annualized revenue climbed to $19 billion; - April 2026: Annualized revenue skyrocketed to $30 billion. This means its monthly revenue grew by over 200% in just one quarter. 14 months ago, Claude Code didn’t even exist. Now, its annual revenue has reached $2.5 billion. 3. Adding up the annual revenues of Snowflake, Datadog, Cloudflare, MongoDB, and HubSpot still falls $15 billion short of Anthropic’s current revenue. These companies combined generate about $15.4 billion, while Anthropic’s revenue is double that. Keep in mind, this company didn’t even exist five years ago. It seems the rapid growth trend of AI agents in Q1 has started translating into tangible business revenue. In this tweet about the capital expenditure war https://(x.com)/qinbafrank/status/2023597321368547520?s=46&t=k6rimWsEbo2D2tXolYcM-A, the shift from skepticism to validation was highlighted as a key factor. Next, we’ll see if the cloud businesses of major tech companies explode even further in their Q1 earnings reports.