Anthropic’s business plan: Build God or die trying

<figure> <img alt="" data-caption="" data-portal-copyright="Image: The Verge / Getty Images" data-has-syndication-rights="1" src="https://platform.theverge.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/10/Anthropic_dario-amodei_money.jpg?quality=90&#038;strip=all&#038;crop=0,0,100,100" /> <figcaption> </figcaption> </figure> <p class="has-drop-cap wp-block-paragraph"><a href="https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/2130357/000162828026067168/anthropicpbc-sx1.htm">The Anthropic S-1</a> seems to have provided the financial justification for the company to spend as much as it possibly can on compute. If you are the kind of person who wonders if Anthropic is doing its level best to build a machine god while convincing Wall Street it's in the business of selling IT contracts, Anthropic has just offered a handy solution: Doing a bunch of things that look like you're trying to build the machine god is the only way to avoid going bankrupt.</p> <p class="wp-block-paragraph">Forget about the machine god for a minute. At least in my read of the S-1, it seems like Anthropic is pinning the future of its company to dramatic growth; it has to, in orde …</p> <p><a href="https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/1021476/anthropic-s-1-compute-recursive">Read the full story at The Verge.</a></p>