Anthropic CEO Amodei says compute is the company's deepest business dilemma days before record IPO

Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei told a JPMorgan investor event in New York that compute is the deepest business dilemma the company faces, since capacity must be bought one to two years ahead without knowing whether revenue will justify the cost. Anthropic has committed nearly $901 billion, mostly to compute and chips, with roughly $71 billion due by September 2027, according to Bloomberg. Amodei said gross margins and a large cash balance cushion the risk, and Anthropic plans to raise up to $64.4 billion in its Nov. 19 IPO plus $26 billion in a private placement, which Bloomberg reports would make it the largest IPO ever.