{"slug": "quoting-karen-kwok-for-reuters-breakingviews", "title": "Quoting Karen Kwok for Reuters Breakingviews", "summary": "Anthropic defines its \"run-rate revenue\" by calculating consumption-based sales over the last 28 days, multiplying that figure by 13, then adding the result to its monthly subscription revenue multiplied by 12, according to a person familiar with the matter cited by Reuters Breakingviews. The methodology, reported by Karen Kwok, offers a rare glimpse into how the AI company measures its financial performance.", "body_md": "31st May 2026\n\nAnthropic defines “run-rate revenue” in two parts. Use the last 28 days of sales from customers charged on a consumption basis and multiply it by 13. Then, multiply the monthly subscription take by 12, and add the two together.\n\n— [Karen Kwok for Reuters Breakingviews](https://www.reuters.com/commentary/breakingviews/anthropic-gives-lesson-ai-revenue-hallucination-2026-03-10/), citing \"a person familiar with the matter\"\n\n## Recent articles\n\n[Claude Opus 4.8: \"a modest but tangible improvement\"](/2026/May/28/claude-opus-4-8/)- 28th May 2026[I think Anthropic and OpenAI have found product-market fit](/2026/May/27/product-market-fit/)- 27th May 2026[Notes on Pope Leo XIV's encyclical on AI](/2026/May/25/encyclical-on-ai/)- 25th May 2026", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/quoting-karen-kwok-for-reuters-breakingviews", "canonical_source": "https://simonwillison.net/2026/May/31/anthropic-run-rate/#atom-everything", "published_at": "2026-05-31 01:48:12+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-05-31 02:11:20.952157+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["artificial-intelligence", "ai-startups"], "entities": ["Anthropic", "Karen Kwok", "Reuters Breakingviews", "Claude Opus 4.8", "OpenAI", "Pope Leo XIV"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/quoting-karen-kwok-for-reuters-breakingviews", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/quoting-karen-kwok-for-reuters-breakingviews.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/quoting-karen-kwok-for-reuters-breakingviews.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/quoting-karen-kwok-for-reuters-breakingviews.jsonld"}}