Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei revealed at the San Francisco developer conference that the AI start‑up’s growth could reach 80 times its size this year, far above the earlier target of tenfold. The company’s Claude chatbot and coding tool, Claude Code, already generate a $30 billion revenue run‑rate, up from $9 billion in 2025.

Amodei said the surge has strained Anthropic’s compute needs, prompting a high‑profile partnership with Elon Musk’s SpaceX. The deal grants access to the Colossus 1 data center, housing more than 220,000 Nvidia AI chips, and may seed future space‑based AI facilities for customers and developers worldwide today as technology evolves in.

Other backers have pledged big sums: Google committed up to another $40 billion, while Amazon agreed to invest $25 billion. These injections aim to shore up compute capacity and expand Claude Code’s subscription tiers, which scale pricing with coding volume for enterprise customers and individuals across different industries as the market demand.

Amodei cautioned that 80‑fold growth is unsustainable, hoping to stabilize numbers as compute constraints ease. For investors, the SpaceX alliance and forthcoming capital infusions signal Anthropic’s push to dominate the AI services market, but also expose the company to intense scaling pressures and regulatory scrutiny for the tech industry today.