Anthropic’s earnings overtake OpenAI’s for the first time: ‘revenue engine’

Nypost · Aug 19, 2026 · 697 words · By Ariel Zilber

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Anthropic’s earnings overtake OpenAI’s for the first time: ‘revenue engine’ See more of our coverage in your search results.

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Anthropic’s earnings overtake OpenAI’s for the first time: ‘revenue engine’ See more of our coverage in your search results.

Why it matters

Add The New York Post on Google Anthropic has reportedly overtaken OpenAI in quarterly sales for the first time — a stunning reversal for the ChatGPT maker in its bitter rivalry with the startup founded by a group of its former employees.

Common ground

Anthropic more than doubled its revenue to $11.6 billion during its second quarter and reported a small adjusted profit, according to the Wall Street Journal.

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eFinder analyzed this article and checked 13 claims against available evidence, cross-references, web search, and Wikipedia. Here is what the fact-checking layer found.

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Claim 1: “directors ousted Altman and subsequently approached Amodei about replacing him as CEO [in November 2023]”

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Claim 2: “Anthropic launched the following year, with Amodei as CEO and his sister Daniela Amodei as president.”

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No evidence was provided for this claim in the gathered results.

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Claim 3: “Anthropic followed in May with a $65 billion funding round at a $965 billion post-money valuation”

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The provided evidence for this claim consists of Citibank banking links and general Wikipedia entries for Anthropic and Dario Amodei; none of these mention a $65 billion funding round or a $965 billion valuation.

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Anthropic, PBC (stylized as ANTHROP\C) is an American artificial intelligence (AI) public benefit corporation headquartered in San Francisco, California. Its flagship product is Claude, a series of pr…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthropic

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Claude Mythos is a series of large language models developed by Anthropic. It is the most powerful series of models in the Claude family. The first model in the series was Claude Mythos Preview. Anthr…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claude_Mythos

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Dario Amodei (born 1983) is an American artificial intelligence (AI) researcher and entrepreneur. In 2021, he and his sister Daniela Amodei co-founded Anthropic, the company behind the large language …
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dario_Amodei

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Claim 4: “Altman was reinstated days later.”

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Claim 5: “Dario Amodei — then OpenAI’s vice president of research — and several colleagues left the company [in late 2020]”

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Three independent sources (Business Insider, AI Wiki, and Windows Forum) confirm Dario Amodei was VP of Research at OpenAI and left with colleagues in December 2020.

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web search NEUTRAL — Ever since Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei left OpenAI in December 2020, the two startups have found themselves at loggerheads. Amodei's feud with OpenAI Sam Altman has now expanded far beyond his icy rela…
https://www.businessinsider.com/sam-altman-dario-amodei-anth…

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web search NEUTRAL — OpenAI: Vice President of Research (2016-2020). In 2016, Amodei joined OpenAI, the AI research organization originally structured as a nonprofit.Departure from OpenAI. In December 2020, Amodei and sev…
https://aiwiki.ai/wiki/dario_amodei

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web search NEUTRAL — Dario Amodei, OpenAI’s former vice president of research, left the company in December 2020 with a group of colleagues and went on to co-found Anthropic in early 2021 as a rival AI lab built around sa…
https://windowsforum.com/threads/dario-amodeis-openai-exit-w…

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Claim 6: “OpenAI’s operating loss, including stock-based compensation, widened to $12.3 billion during the quarter from $9.3 billion in the first quarter”

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Three independent sources (Parameter, Wall Street Journal, and a report on Anthropic surpassing OpenAI) confirm OpenAI's operating loss widened to $12.3 billion from $9.3 billion in the first quarter.

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — OpenAI is an American artificial intelligence (AI) public benefit corporation (PBC) headquartered in San Francisco. It develops proprietary generative AI models, particularly its generative pre-traine…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenAI

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The 2026 OpenAI agent cyberattacks, also called the Hugging Face Incident and the OpenAI–Hugging Face Incident, were a series of unsanctioned coordinated cyberattacks conducted without human intervent…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenAI–HuggingFace_incident

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — On November 17, 2023, OpenAI's board of directors ousted co-founder and chief executive Sam Altman. In an official post on the company's website, it was stated that "the board no longer has confidence…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Removal_of_Sam_Altman_from_Ope…

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Claim 7: “OpenAI said in March that it closed a financing deal with $122 billion in committed capital at an $852 billion post-money valuation.”

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The provided Wikipedia results for OpenAI discuss its general nature, Codex, and products, but do not mention a March financing deal of $122 billion or an $852 billion valuation.

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Codex is an AI coding agent developed by OpenAI for software engineering tasks such as writing code and fixing bugs, released in April 2025 as Codex CLI. Codex is available through ChatGPT's web app, …
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The American artificial intelligence (AI) organization OpenAI has released a variety of products and applications since its founding in 2015.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Products_and_applications_of_O…

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Claim 8: “Anthropic... reported a small adjusted profit”

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Three independent web sources (OpenAI Trails Anthropic, Anthropic IPO report, OpenAI Q2 Revenue Slows) confirm that Anthropic reported a small adjusted operating profit.

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web search NEUTRAL — OpenAI recorded slower revenue growth and widening losses in the second quarter, while rival Anthropic more than doubled its sales and moved into a small operating profit, highlighting a sharp shift i…
https://www.outlookbusiness.com/deeptech/openai-trails-anthr…

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web search NEUTRAL — Anthropic reportedly expects to post adjusted operating profit for a second straight quarter as revenue accelerates. The Claude maker’s adjusted profitability excludes major costs, drawing criticism f…
https://stocktwits.com/news-articles/markets/equity/anthropi…

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web search NEUTRAL — Anthropic reported roughly $11.6 billion in second-quarter revenue, more than doubling its prior-quarter figure and exceeding OpenAI’s total for the first time. It also recorded a small adjusted opera…
https://www.kucoin.com/blog/openai-q2-earnings-losses-ipo-ou…

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Claim 9: “Anthropic more than doubled its revenue to $11.6 billion during its second quarter”

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Multiple independent sources (Parameter, Forbes 400 report, LEAP/The Decoder/PYMNTS) confirm Anthropic's second-quarter revenue was $11.6 billion and that it more than doubled its previous quarter.

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Claude is a series of large language models (LLMs) developed by American software company Anthropic. Claude was released as an AI-based chatbot in March 2023. It is also used in AI-assisted software d…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claude_(AI)

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Claim 10: “OpenAI’s second-quarter revenue of $6.7 billion — an 18% increase from the previous quarter’s $5.7 billion”

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Multiple sources (Wall Street Journal via 'OpenAI's pause put a price tag on AI safety' and 'Anthropic surpasses OpenAI in Q2 revenue') confirm OpenAI's Q2 revenue was $6.7 billion, an 18% increase from $5.7 billion.

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Claim 11: “Earlier this year, Anthropic used Super Bowl ads to mock the prospect of advertising inside AI assistants while promising to keep Claude ad-free.”

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Claim 12: “Anthropic has reportedly overtaken OpenAI in quarterly sales for the first time”

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The provided evidence for claim 0 consists of unrelated Stack Overflow posts about browser caching and Docker, providing no information regarding Anthropic or OpenAI revenue.

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web search NEUTRAL — Spent days trying to get Chromium based app to stop caching images. The ?nocache with time echo solved the issue. Thank you!
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/126772/how-to-force-a-we…

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web search NEUTRAL — Feb 2, 2016 · I have a few RUN commands in my Dockerfile that I would like to run with -no-cache each time I build a Docker image. I understand the docker build --no-cache will disable caching for the…
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/35134713/disable-cache-f…

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web search NEUTRAL — From fastapi official doc The --no-cache-dir option tells pip to not save the downloaded packages locally, as that is only if pip was going to be run again to install the same packages, but that's not…
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/45594707/what-is-pips-no…

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Claim 13: “The board also discussed a possible merger between OpenAI and Anthropic, but Amodei rejected both overtures”

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