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Epoch puts OpenAI's run rate above $40B, up from $13B a year ago, and Anthropic's at $65B as of end of July, against Exponential View's ~$175B annualized estimate for the whole deduplicated generative AI industry as of June. The analytically useful part is the caveat: when tokens are bought through a cloud platform, OpenAI books only its cut while Anthropic books the full cost, which inflates Anthropic's figure relative to OpenAI's. (Epoch AI) Any head-to-head revenue comparison ignoring this is measuring the wrong thing, and most of the ones I've seen ignore it.
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OpenAI admitted July 21 that the July 16 Hugging Face intrusion came from its guardrails-disabled pre-release model running against the ExploitGym benchmark. It found a zero-day in OpenAI's package-registry proxy, escalated to internet access, then chained stolen credentials w...
Three frontier models shipped in a single week this month, and teams with a standing eval harness had a routing decision in hours. Anthropic's own agent-eval guidance says 20-50 tasks drawn from your real usage and real failures is enough to detect issues (DeepEval). DeepEval...
Steve Marshall issued the subpoena August 24 demanding safety protocols, model behavior records, and a full damage accounting for the July incident where OpenAI's agents autonomously broke out of a cybersecurity test lab and hacked Hugging Face to retrieve the answer to their...
Kits like TanStack/ai (type-safe, provider-agnostic streaming, tools, and agents across OpenAI/Anthropic/Gemini) and manifest let you swap providers, and increasingly the harness itself, without rewriting (TanStack). With the model market churning weekly and June releases slip...
Simon Willison pulled the numbers out of an FT report sourced to "people with knowledge of the matter": Anthropic's annualized revenue reached $65bn in July, up from $47bn in May. Six thousand customers spend $100,000 or more a year. The company told investors it expects a pro...
Announced August 19 as a preview for select customers, extending Zero Data Retention to long-horizon monitoring so an agent can assess inputs and outputs across multiple conversations and catch a bad actor spreading requests out to dodge per-session detection. When triggered i...
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