consider frontier lab R&D spend efficiency
internally they are able to use models 6 to 12 months ahead of what is publicly available
on our estimates these are 50 to 3000x more performant per dollar
they also can use those models at cost rather than having to pay margin
anthropic's gross margins are reputedly in the 85% range
In essence they get 300x to 20,000x leverage on their R&D dollars relative to competitors who aren't at the frontier