Show me the pure AI company in the 80s that even approaches Anthropic.

Not sure what job you're in, but I don't really understand where such takes come from. As someone who works in software/ IT, this stuff is pure gold- it's multiplying by a substantial factor not just the productivity but the abilities and intelligence of my entire team. This has a very measurable value in money, and what the company pays for it now is just a small fraction of the value it gets, measured in terms of the salaries you'd need to pay to get the same level of performance. Anthropic could easily charge 5 times as much and still be convenient.

The technology people were developing in the 80s was also gold, in terms of its usefulness. Heck, much of it forms an essential part of the coding harnesses we all rely on nowadays.

But that didn’t stop the AI winter from coming. Because a technology being transformative does not protect it from over-investment. History perhaps suggests the opposite is true.

Nor did it prevent the AI companies of the 80s from going bankrupt when they got undercut by the commoditization that naturally came with the maturation of the technology.

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For the 80s, the symbolic AI techniques that went into expert systems.

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