--- title: "Anthropic’s CEO says it could grow by 80 times this year" type: "News" locale: "en" url: "https://longbridge.com/en/news/285480438.md" description: "Dario Amodei, CEO of Anthropic, announced at the company's developer conference that it could grow 80 times this year, surpassing initial expectations of 10 times. Anthropic, known for its Claude chatbot and AI coding tool, reported an annual revenue run rate exceeding $30 billion. To support this growth, Anthropic has partnered with SpaceX for computing power, utilizing over 220,000 Nvidia AI chips. Amodei expressed concerns about sustaining such rapid growth and hopes for more manageable numbers in the future." datetime: "2026-05-07T03:50:18.000Z" locales: - [zh-CN](https://longbridge.com/zh-CN/news/285480438.md) - [en](https://longbridge.com/en/news/285480438.md) - [zh-HK](https://longbridge.com/zh-HK/news/285480438.md) generator: "portal-rs" --- # Anthropic’s CEO says it could grow by 80 times this year The company is one of the world’s leading AI startups with its Claude chatbot and its popular AI coding tool, Claude Code \[SAN FRANCISCO\] Dario Amodei, the CEO of Anthropic, said on Wednesday (May 6) that his artificial intelligence company had planned for growing about 10 times as big this year, only to reach a growth rate that could make it 80 times as big this year instead. Amodei, 43, made his remarks at Anthropic’s annual developer conference in San Francisco, where he and other executives gave a glimpse into the company’s plans. Anthropic is one of the world’s leading AI startups with its Claude chatbot and its popular AI coding tool, Claude Code, which people can pay to subscribe to. Last month, Anthropic said that its annual revenue run rate had surpassed US$30 billion, up from US$9 billion at the end of 2025. At the conference, Amodei said that Anthropic had been overwhelmed by the rate of growth, which has increased the company’s need for computing power to deliver its AI products to customers. “I hope that 80-times growth does not continue because that’s just crazy and it’s too hard to handle,” Amodei said. “I’m hoping for some more normal numbers.” To obtain more computing power, Anthropic has signed a series of deals with industry giants. At the conference, Anthropic said that it had sealed an agreement with Elon Musk’s SpaceX to use all of the computing capacity from the rocket company’s Colossus 1 data centre in Memphis, Tennessee. The move gives Anthropic access to the computing power of more than 220,000 Nvidia AI chips, the company said, and opens the door to working with SpaceX to create AI data centres in space. ### Navigate Asia in a new global order Get the insights delivered to your inbox. Anthropic declined to disclose the terms of the deal. SpaceX did not respond to a request for comment. “As you saw today with the SpaceX compute deal, we are working as quickly as possible to provide more compute than we have in the past,” Amodei said, using an industry term for computing power. He added that his company was working every day “to obtain even more compute” for users. With the SpaceX deal, Anthropic said, it can expand the amount of coding that some Claude Code subscribers can do before they hit a usage limit with the tool. Anthropic offers people different pricing depending on the amount of coding they want to do. SEE ALSO ### Anthropic signs computing deal with SpaceX to meet AI demand ### Anthropic unveils AI agents to field financial services tasks ### Anthropic commits to spending US$200 billion on Google’s cloud and chips: report Last month, Google, which has been a longtime investor in the startup, committed to invest as much as another US$40 billion in Anthropic. Amazon, another investor in Anthropic, agreed to invest as much as US$25 billion. NYTIMES Decoding Asia newsletter: your guide to navigating Asia in a new global order. Sign up here to get Decoding Asia newsletter. Delivered to your inbox. 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