Well, the only people with any ability to acknowledge it have a massive incentive to do so, and I've been around the block enough times to know that startups will use every trick in the book to paint a rosy financial picture, even when it's extremely misleading or occasionally just straight up lies. In the current climate of AI hype my skepticism is even greater.

I'll believe it when I see it.

Where and by who? Critical context missing here.

Dario Amodei @ 18:05

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GcqQ1ebBqkc&t=1088s

The CEO hyping his product and the viability of his business during an interview with Stripe does not, at least to me, qualify as “widely reported and acknowledged”