Anthropic tops $11.5 billion in revenue in a single quarter

Anthropic closed the second quarter with preliminary revenue above $11.5 billion, according to documents seen by Bloomberg. That is an increase of more than 14 times compared with the same period in 2025, when the company took in $787 million, and a further jump from the $4.73 billion recorded in the first quarter of 2026.

The figures are preliminary and could still be revised, but they point to a clear trend: the company behind the Claude chatbot also posted a positive adjusted operating profit for the period. The growth comes as Anthropic competes with OpenAI for large corporate clients and gains ground among professionals who entrust its software with tasks such as writing code.

In May, Anthropic had said its annualized revenue had passed $47 billion, up from about $10 billion in revenue for the whole of 2025.

The market's test

These figures come as the company prepares for a possible stock market listing as early as this autumn. A debut would make Anthropic one of the first major private artificial intelligence companies to go public, opening access to fresh capital to cover the rising costs of computing infrastructure, the purchase of advanced hardware and the construction of specialized data centers.

The positive operating profit, adjusted and provisional as it is, sets Anthropic apart from part of the artificial intelligence sector, where fast-growing revenue is often still paired with sizeable losses from investment in computing capacity. It remains to be seen whether growth at this pace is sustainable once the market slows, and whether margins hold up as competition among major model providers weighs on prices. A stock listing would subject the company's accounts, disclosed so far only in preliminary form, to independent scrutiny they have not yet undergone.