Re:Anthropic IPO Buyers See Valuation as Low as $1.1T
by Tanjreeve on Friday November 06, 2026 @06:55PM
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API is definitely holding things up. But they excluded the training from those profit calculations. There's a ton of wordplay indulged online about how that's capex etc etc. But without the training they don't have the thing to run inference on so it's very fitting with the pattern of being evasive with finances.
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Re:Anthropic IPO Buyers See Valuation as Low as $1.1T
by phi0 on Saturday November 07, 2026 @05:24AM
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You’re confusing two figures. Before their S-1 filing, they reported being “profitable” to their investors when excluding training and stock based comp.
In the S-1 filing Q3 was profitable even with training included, if you exclude stock based compensation.
Q2 was profitable on all operating costs (incl. hardware, employees, training, inference). They were not profitable on non operating costs though. That’s partially interest, but mostly, when their valuation goes up, they’ll have to issue more stock (absolute value) to early investors after IPO.
Their profitability will likely crator as they start building their own data centres after the IPO, so that’s the best results they’ll have in a while.