Anthropic posts $80bn loss in first half of 2026: WSJ

The loss, up from $13bn in the same period last year, was driven by accounting charges, according to the report.

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The loss is up $13 billion more than last year, driven by accounting charges, the report said.

Anthropic logo and a keyboard in this illustration taken on October 19, 2026 [Dado Ruvic/Illustration/Reuters]

Anthropic, the artificial intelligence (AI) company known for creating the chatbot Claude, recorded a net loss of more than $80bn in the first half of 2026, according to the Wall Street Journal, as the market anticipates its looming initial public offering (IPO).

The corporation also indicated it could spend up to $750bn in coming years to acquire more computing capacity, including potential deals currently under discussion, the Journal said on Tuesday.

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The main driver for the loss was the $72bn in accounting charges related to changes in the value of convertible notes and other financial instruments Anthropic issued to raise funding, the report said.

The loss figure was up from $13bn a year earlier, according to a draft prospectus, a legal document corporations submit to financial regulators, for its IPO.

The figures show the hefty costs of the AI race, even as investors look more closely at whether the money companies are pouring into chips and data centres will pay off.

Anthropic also shared a list of potential risk factors, including uncertainty over how to prevent its products from doing harm, whether through sophisticated cyberattacks or blackmail by uncontrolled models.

Anthropic did not respond to a request for comment, and the report on the non-public information could not be immediately verified.

Investors weigh loss

Reuters first reported in September that Anthropic posted a net loss of $42bn in 2025, as part of a series of exclusives from its IPO prospectus.

The company has benefited from the popularity of Claude Code, its coding assistant that developers use to write software and build apps.

But some current and prospective investors who attended Anthropic’s investor day in San Francisco, California, last week are weighing a lower valuation for the AI company after its latest financial disclosures, four people familiar with the matter told Reuters.

The investors who attended the event discussed a valuation of around $1.5 trillion, three of the people said, a significant step down from the roughly $2 trillion valuation previously expected for the November share sale.

Anthropic’s revenue jumped to $16.3bn in the six-month period that ended June 30, up from $1.1bn a year ago, while AI infrastructure spending nearly quadrupled to almost $9bn, the Journal reported.

Anthropic reported last week that AI could be months away from learning to self-replicate on everyday home devices.

报告称，由于会计费用增加，亏损额比去年增加了130亿美元。

这张摄于 2026 年 10 月 19 日的插图中出现了人形生物的标志和键盘。[Dado Ruvic/Illustration/Reuters]

据《华尔街日报》报道，以创建聊天机器人 Claude 而闻名的人工智能 (AI) 公司 Anthropic 在 2026 年上半年净亏损超过 800 亿美元，因为市场预期该公司即将进行首次公开募股 (IPO)。

据《华尔街日报》周二报道，该公司还表示，未来几年可能会花费高达 7500 亿美元来获取更多的计算能力，包括目前正在讨论的潜在交易。

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报告称，造成亏损的主要原因是与 Anthropic 为筹集资金而发行的可转换票据和其他金融工具的价值变动相关的 720 亿美元会计费用。

根据公司向金融监管机构提交的首次公开募股（IPO）招股说明书草案（一份法律文件），亏损额较上年同期的 130 亿美元有所增加。

数据显示，人工智能竞赛的成本非常高昂，投资者们也在密切关注各公司投入芯片和数据中心的资金是否能够获得回报。

Anthropic 还分享了一份潜在风险因素清单，其中包括如何防止其产品造成伤害的不确定性，无论是通过复杂的网络攻击还是不受控制的模特的勒索。