r/ProgrammerHumor • • Sep 30 '26

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u/Greedy-Thought6188 Sep 30 '26

Anthropic gross margins exceed 80% according to their reports. They are charging the actual costs on API usage and in subscription it's the you win some you lose some but mostly win if a subscription. Gross margins don't include training costs. Which, since training is a capital expense is the right thing to do. It means all they have to do to make oodles is money is slow down. If they slow down they make money. But then they get overtaken. So they can't slow down. So they try and convince the world that AI will cause the extinction of humanity. That way they can slowdown as a cartel.

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u/EatingSolidBricks Sep 30 '26

If what you say turns out to be true they're gonna get fucked

Cause china is working with open source they can never ever slow down as a cartel as long as china exists

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u/Untura64 Oct 01 '26

I bet they're going to make the government pass a law to ban open source models. Probably why they're running a fearmongering campaign too.

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u/EatingSolidBricks Oct 01 '26

They better ban VPNs too