Anthropic's IPO prospectus shows AI vision, surging costs

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1. DISCUSSION6thbit · Sep 28, 11:40 PM · news.ycombinator.com
2. SOURCE@reuters · Sep 29, 12:30 AM · “Anthropic's IPO prospectus shows sweeping AI vision, surging costs” · x.com
3. SUPPORT@wallstengine · Sep 28, 11:29 PM · “roughly $34B came from an accounting charge tied largely to the rising value of financing instruments” · x.com
4. SUPPORT@rhouseresearch · Sep 28, 11:31 PM · “the near-$42 billion net loss included a roughly $34 billion accounting charge” · x.com
5. SUPPORT@garymarcus · Sep 29, 12:11 AM · “proposed valuation is easily calculated, as -50 times 2025 losses” · x.com
6. SUPPORT@edzitron · Sep 29, 12:03 AM · “Spent $12.6bn to make $4.6bn in revenue in 2025, $7.33bn of which was compute costs” · x.com
7. SUPPORT@jon_stokes · Sep 29, 12:22 AM · “metered inference is unprofitable for basic structural reasons” · x.com
8. SUPPORT@zerohedge · Sep 28, 11:24 PM · “plans to spend $518 billion on cloud, computing and infrastructure obligations in coming year” · x.com