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Anthropic’s S-1 reveals models under six months old drove over 80% of Q3 revenue, sharpening a debate about developers’ pull to the newest models.

bit.lyMost of Anthropic’s Q3 revenue came from models that barely existed six months agoAnthropic’s S-1 reveals models under six months old drove over 80% of Q3 revenue, sharpening a debate about developers’ pull to the newest models.

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Dean Lee

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When 80% of revenue concentrates in weights under six months old, standard software depreciation breaks down. If developers migrate immediately to the frontier, prior training capex cannot be amortized across multi-year schedules. Model creation becomes continuous maintenance expense.