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the credibility of using vercel data - means the journos were lazy.

vercel is mostly used by the 'next.js' kids - so that ain't gonna paint the full picture.

again vercel is just reselling aws services at high marked up prices - so people paying for vercel again are most likely to pay for anthropic models. though we know models are a commodity at this point - without major differentiation.

what a lazy analysis.

And we’ll be lazy if we blindly trust your words. Do you have any number to back up your assessments?

Anthropic is reported to have $11.5B in revenue in 2nd quarter, compared to $787 million a year ago, and $4.73B in 1st quarter. In other words, massive jump. The annual run rate is $47B in May, so probably higher now.

In other word, the article is right —- Anthropic is the vendor with the highest revenue.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-08-14/anthropic...

To claim "highest revenue" you need to compare with other companies not with itself in the past...

Journalists just took whichever numbers fit the Apple narrative better

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