I think these predictions have largely held true - though the ANT S1 doesn't break out claude code subsidies the overall gross margin is 85%
& if you subtract all of sales & marketing you get 62%, which obviously overcounts subsidies.
So a very GM+ positive profile and obviously a tremendous business.
Here are a few other predictions/surprises re: Anthropic:
- The (subsidized) consumer plans are actually very GM+ because the features that select for hardcore users are all pay-per-use (ultra code/review/plan + excess Fable usage)
- The recent change around "Preserved Thinking" was intended to break routing more than distillation and will increase revenue per task significantly (
- Mythos is the first of many models that will be vertically integrated into industries and sold as outcomes vs APIs. Dario described token-level price discrimination based on outcomes so this shouldn't come as a surprise.
Overall I think the market underweights how sophisticated anthropic has been in aligning its business interests with its technical and mission interests.
(BTW all of this is personal speculation - i have no insider information).