Anthropic made fun of this idea during the last Super Bowl.

Our run-rate revenue has now surpassed $30 billion, up from approximately $9 billion at the end of 2025.

As part of its long-running Client Zero initiative, in which NEC serves as its own first customer before offering its technology to clients

The commoditization flywheel : both companies give away complements to drive usage of the core.

They don't mind paying the AI labs for tokens — but the agent itself, they'd much rather have outside of the labs' infrastructure.

Figma is effectively funding a competitor - and the more AI usage Figma has - the more money they send over to Anthropic for the tokens they use.

US tech CEOs believe the best models should stay proprietary, partly so they can recoup enormous training costs and partly out of concern that powerful frontier models could be weaponized. Chinese labs, for their part, are not purely idealistic: Open-source is not only free advertising but also a shrewd workaround.

Reddit, Shutterstock, and News Corp are making hundreds of millions a year licensing their high-quality data to companies training AI, and those contracts are growing about 20 percent annually, according to their quarterly filings.

Today's large language models (LLMs) are trained to align with user preferences through methods such as reinforcement learning. Yet models are beginning to be deployed not merely to satisfy users, but also to generate revenue for the companies that created them through advertisements

except API tokens are currently sold at a LOSS. That "$20,000 scan" probably cost closer to $100,000+ in real gpu time

Each of these companies recognized the cognitive burden of unbundling. They're not selling features. They're selling trust.

Like lean production, which extended mass production's dominance for decades through efficiency gains, AI doesn't mark computing's end but its maturation.

The new growth, by contrast, will increasingly sit in tokens, consumption, automations, outcomes, and machine-driven workflows. If you are not in the token path, you are not standing in the fastest-growing part of the budget.

In some cases, this can look like 10–25x more value than what is ultimately included in the paid plan.

Raising prices will for sure decrease demand and that risks killing the growth story. And even if revenue keeps growing, it doesn’t matter if there are no margins

纯粹收集分析这种形态，过去互联网有过先例，但你会发现它卖不出去钱。

Zhang, of Alibaba.com, says Accio currently does not include advertising. Suppliers can pay for higher placement in Alibaba.com's regular search results, but Zhang says Accio is 'not integrated' with that system.

The demand for these medications has been the most ferocious thing I have witnessed in my working life, and the hardest parts of running a telehealth company, like finding doctors and fulfilling prescriptions, can be entirely outsourced to platforms like CareValidate and OpenLoop.

Claude 的 Max Pro 账号额度不允许给第三方产品用了，如果你没有使用 Agent SDK 和 Claude Code 为底座的产品，就不能用这个账号里的额度

A founder in LA reportedly scaled Medvi toward $1.8B in annual sales with basically one full-time employee.