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TWiT 1089: Robot Butt Crack - Anthropic Banned, But Winning
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Anthropic Wins the Ban: Market Share Surge & the PR War
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Leo brings the data that reframes the entire Fable ban story: according to RAMP, Anthropic's share of paid AI business subscriptions rose 2.5 percentage points in May to 41%, beating OpenAI's flat 39.5% — and the timing suggests the ban itself was the catalyst. Owen observes dryly that 'every time they get banned, they get more customers.' Anthropic had long been the insider's choice for software engineers but lacked OpenAI's name recognition. The ban changed that instantly, turning Fable into forbidden fruit.
OpenAI's independently verified financials show a $38.5 billion loss last year. But most of it is non-cash — nonprofit-to-for-profit restructuring and stock compensation. The real question is whether the underlying business can ever generate enough revenue to justify a near-trillion-dollar valuation.
Independently verified financial documents obtained by Ed Zitron and the Financial Times show OpenAI lost $38.5 billion last year, though much of that reflects non-cash restructuring from nonprofit-to-for-profit conversion.
