AI developer Anthropic’s growth is accelerating. According to people familiar with the matter, the company’s annualized revenue surpassed $65 billion (approximately \u00a510.4 trillion) as of the end of July 2026. That marks a roughly 40% increase in just two months from $47 billion (approximately \u00a57.5 trillion) in May, and more than seven times the level of approximately $9 billion (approximately \u00a51.4 trillion) at the end of 2025.<\/p>\n
Anthropic disclosed the latest figure in a financial update for investors. The company projects 2028 revenue of $190 billion to $200 billion (approximately \u00a531.9 trillion), and this outlook will be a key factor in determining the valuation for its initial public offering (IPO), which is slated for later this year.<\/p>\n
Driving the growth is “Claude Code,” the AI coding agent for developers. Anthropic completed a $65 billion Series H funding round in May, reaching a corporate valuation of $965 billion (approximately \u00a5153.8 trillion). That represents a more than 2.5-fold surge from $380 billion (approximately \u00a560.6 trillion) in February, reflecting robust investor demand for AI companies. Alongside rival OpenAI, Anthropic has become one of the most closely watched IPO candidates in the AI industry.<\/p>\n
“\/design” skill arrives in Claude Code<\/p>\n
On August 17 (U.S. time), Anthropic announced it had implemented a design feature called “\/design” in Claude Code. It is being rolled out as a research preview and is available to Pro, Max, Team, and Enterprise subscribers.<\/p>\n
The feature is built on Claude’s artifacts functionality and works in both Claude Desktop and the CLI version of Claude Code. When a user runs “\/design,” an artboard appears on the side of the screen, rendering UI designs proposed by Claude. Users can visually review the proposals while iterating with Claude Code to refine the UI. This enables a development flow that combines not just source code writing but also design proposals and visual confirmation.<\/p>\n
Transparency initiatives and watermarking technology<\/p>\n
Around the same time, Anthropic has been advancing multiple measures to improve transparency. The company launched a new page publishing the system prompt history for all Claude models, covering everything from Claude 3 to the latest Claude Opus 5, with records dating back to July 2024.<\/p>\n
According to the published data, the length of system prompts has ballooned from roughly 300 words in the early days to more than 3,000 words in Opus 5. The community has voiced criticism that “important instructions are being crowded out by irrelevant content,” along with frustration over prompt bloat. Developer Simon Willison, who maintains a GitHub repository tracking prompt change history, pointed out that the official disclosure does not include tool definitions or Claude Code’s system prompts.<\/p>\n
Anthropic also published details on a mechanism that embeds invisible digital watermarks in text generated by supported models released on or after August 2. Rather than adding characters or metadata, the watermarking approach incorporates a secret key into word-choice patterns.<\/p>\n
According to the company, the watermark does not affect the meaning, quality, or readability of the text and is undetectable to the human eye. Natural language offers many synonymous expressions, making it easy to embed, whereas code is less flexible and watermarks can only be placed in comments and variable names. Translations retain full watermarks, but detection accuracy drops when only grammatical corrections or minor edits are made. Longer texts yield higher detection accuracy, and substantial rewriting may erase the watermark. Anthropic plans to offer a detection API as well.<\/p>\n
What to watch going forward<\/p>\n
Anthropic’s rapid growth and accelerating product rollout reflect intensifying competition in the AI market. The addition of the design feature to Claude Code is seen as a stepping stone toward AI agents handling the entire development workflow. At the same time, community frustration over system prompt bloat highlights the challenge of balancing model practicality with transparency.<\/p>\n
For Anthropic, which is heading toward an IPO, whether it can sustain its rapid revenue expansion\u2014and whether it can enhance transparency while maintaining trust in product quality\u2014will be critical factors shaping its valuation going forward.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"AI developer Anthropic’s growth is accelerating. According to people familiar with the matter, the company’s annualized revenue surpassed…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":144415,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[53,3154,322,182,2798,59173,1682,2194,8304,157,9033],"class_list":["post-144414","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-anthropic","tag-anthropic","tag-anthropic-claude","tag-aws","tag-claude","tag-claude-code","tag-claude-opus-5","tag-design","tag-google-cloud","tag-microsoft-foundry","tag-openai","tag-simon-willison"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144414","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=144414"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144414\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/144415"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=144414"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=144414"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=144414"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}