Anthropic, OpenAI blow past Starbucks, McDonald's amid AI boom

Artificial intelligence companies are now outpacing iconic consumer brands in raw revenue. Per Axios, Anthropic and OpenAI combined are tracking toward roughly one hundred twenty billion dollars in annual revenue, with Anthropic representing about sixty percent of that—approximately seventy-two billion dollars annually. At that rate, Anthropic alone would exceed the combined revenue of Starbucks and McDonald's, two fifty to one hundred year old global institutions. Remarkably, Anthropic was founded just five years ago, yet is reshaping the revenue hierarchy faster than brands with decades of market dominance and tens of thousands of global locations.

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