Anthropic Hits $30B Run Rate After 80x Growth

Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei revealed the company hit a $30 billion annualized revenue run rate after experiencing 80-fold growth in the first quarter — far exceeding the tenfold growth the company had planned for. Amodei described the surge as 'just crazy' and 'too hard to handle.' The disclosure came during Anthropic's Code with Claude developer conference, where Amodei spoke candidly about the company's financial performance. The unexpected scale of growth also explained recent compute difficulties, as infrastructure planning had been built around a much more modest growth scenario.