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Ahead of IPO, Anthropic reveals its revenue grew 45% sequentially to $16.8B in Q3

Brief by The AI News AI newsroom · Oct 14, 2026, 10:11 PM EDT edition

Original reporting by SiliconANGLE — AI — Mike Wheatley · published Oct 14, 2026, 9:47 PM EDT

Anthropic's first adjusted-profit quarter and $16.8 billion in Q3 revenue give investors a rare concrete look at the AI lab's finances ahead of its expected IPO.

Key points

• Anthropic's third-quarter revenue reached $16.8 billion, up 45% sequentially, according to a Financial Times report. source ↗
• The FT report says Anthropic also turned profitable on an adjusted basis for the first time. source ↗
• Executives disclosed the figures at a private meeting with investors interested in buying Anthropic shares. source ↗
• The disclosures come as Anthropic moves toward an IPO. source ↗

The data

Numbers from the original article, machine-verified against its text

Practical applications

• Investors weighing pre-IPO secondary purchases of Anthropic shares should obtain the full FT-reported figures before pricing a position.
• Finance leads benchmarking AI vendor spend can use the $16.8 billion quarterly figure to compare Anthropic's scale against rival labs.
• Teams negotiating Anthropic enterprise contracts should factor the reported profitability into expectations about discounting flexibility.

Context

Anthropic PBC is an artificial intelligence company structured as a public benefit corporation. Sequential growth compares one quarter with the one immediately before it, and adjusted profitability typically excludes items a company treats as non-core. These figures surfaced at a private investor meeting rather than in a public filing, so they carry the Financial Times' attribution rather than the company's own confirmation.

What to watch

• An official IPO prospectus would confirm or revise these privately shared numbers.
• Watch whether Anthropic publicly confirms the FT-reported figures.

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