Dario Amodei, CEO of Anthropic, said Wednesday that his artificial intelligence company had planned to grow about 10 times this year, only to reach a growth rate that could make it 80 times larger this year.
Amodei, 43, made his comments at Anthropic's annual developers conference in San Francisco, where he and other executives gave a look at the company's plans. Anthropic is one of the world's leading AI startups with its chatbot Claude and its popular AI coding tool, Claude Code, which people can pay to subscribe to. Last month, Anthropic said its annual revenue rate had surpassed $30 billion, up from $9 billion at the end of 2025.
At the conference, Amodei said Anthropic had been overwhelmed by the rate of growth, which has increased the company's need for computing power to deliver its AI products to customers.
“I hope the 80-fold growth doesn't continue because that's crazy and it's too much to handle,” Amodei said. “I hope there are more normal numbers.”
To gain more computing power, Anthropic has signed a series of agreements with industry giants. At the conference, Anthropic said it had sealed a deal with Elon Musk's SpaceX to use all of the computing capacity at the rocket company's Colossus 1 data center in Memphis. The move gives Anthropic access to the computing power of more than 220,000 Nvidia AI chips, the company said, and opens the door to working with SpaceX to create AI data centers in space.
Anthropic declined to disclose terms of the deal. SpaceX did not respond to a request for comment.
“As you saw today with the computing agreement with SpaceX, we are working as quickly as possible to provide more computing than in the past,” Amodei said, using an industry term for computing power. He added that his company was working every day “to get even more computing” to users.
With the agreement with SpaceX, Anthropic said, the amount of coding that some Claude Code subscribers can do before reaching a usage limit with the tool can be expanded. Anthropic offers people different prices depending on how much coding they want to do.
