Anthropic ARR ~$60B+
David Sacks noted Anthropic is at around $60-something billion in ARR while OpenAI is at $40-something billion, creating an emerging duopoly at the model layer.
Snapshot · All-In with Chamath, Jason, Sacks & Friedberg
AI Sovereignty Wars, Palantir-Nvidia Deal, SCOTUS Birthright Ruling, Newsom's CA Budget Lie
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Jul 3, 2026
Where this was said
Palantir-Nvidia open source deal, Alex Karp's CNBC Crashout
At 27:44 · chapter starts 0:21
Jason escalates the argument from data to survival: Lotus 1-2-3, WordPerfect, and VisiCalc were all Microsoft's 'partners' before they were replaced by Excel and Word. Sam Altman went to Y Combinator offering $2M in free tokens — not as a gift, but to map what the next generation of founders is building so OpenAI can incorporate those innovations. [1] — Jason Calacanis "Nobody who went to bed with Microsoft in the '80s, Facebook in the 2000s, or Sam Altman now in the 2020s did not wake up with their throat …" 20:00 Chamath sharpens the frame: Apple's 30% App Store tax created an incentive to leave developers enough margin to survive. OpenAI and Anthropic offer no such deal — there's no 30% tax because they intend to take 100%. The deeper issue, Chamath argues, is that you can't rent intelligence from the same company that rents it to your competitor. The result is inevitable commoditization: both companies end up with the same AI capabilities, destroying the competitive differentiation that justified building in the first place.
Intelligence Sovereignty: Why Enterprises Must Own Their AI
Sharing your company's data with Anthropic or OpenAI is handing a competitor your playbook. As Sacks explains, the Figma-Anthropic betrayal is the template: model providers watch where value is created, then compete directly — and the customer loses twice, paying for the tools that map their own defeat.
The Figma Betrayal: Anthropic's CPO on the Board, Then Gone in 3 Days
Anthropic's chief product officer sat on Figma's board while the company was preparing Claude Design. He resigned 3 days before launch. Figma's founder said Anthropic wasn't fully honest. The stock dropped roughly 50% this year while Anthropic's valuation surged. This isn't a one-off — it's the business model.
Anthropic's Microsoft Playbook: From Operating System to Everything
Anthropic saw Cursor was their biggest customer and crushing it in coding — then launched Claude Code to take that category. Now they've done it with Claude Design, Claude Science, Claude Legal, Claude Financial. The pattern is Microsoft Windows all over again: dominate the platform, then capture the most profitable verticals one by one.
Figma stock down ~50% this year
After Anthropic launched Claude Design to compete directly with Figma — while Anthropic's CPO sat on Figma's board — Figma's stock fell roughly 50% this year while Anthropic's valuation surged.
Half of large US companies earn below cost of capital
A BCG study found that with long-term interest rates returning to their historical average of 8–11%, half of large US companies cannot generate returns on capital that exceed their cost of capital.
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