The money behind AI

What the companies building AI earn, spend and promise to spend, from what they must tell investors. Does it pay for itself? Their own filings are where the answer starts, so we read them: every figure here is checked against the filing it comes from, and every company gets the same treatment.

Ctrl AI is written with Claude, made by Anthropic, the first company in this section. Every company gets the same treatment, from its own filings. Nothing here is investment advice.

AI labs

The companies that build the frontier models.

Anthropic

Maker of Claude, and a public benefit corporation. Filed to list its shares on October 26, 2026.

January to June 2026, from its S-1 filed Oct 26, 2026

Revenue

$16.3 billion

a year earlier: $1.2 billion

Operating loss

$693 million

a year earlier: $2.1 billion

Net loss

$80.7 billion

$72.4 billion of it a change in the fair value of notes

Cash from operations

+⁠$3.9 billion

a year earlier: −⁠$1.5 billion

Next · when its financial statements are public

  • OpenAI

Clouds and hyperscalers

Where the models are trained and run.

To come · from their quarterly and annual reports to the SEC

  • Microsoft
  • Alphabet
  • Amazon
  • Meta
  • Oracle
  • CoreWeave

Chips

What the computing runs on.

To come · from their quarterly and annual reports

  • Nvidia
  • AMD
  • Broadcom
  • TSMC

How this section is made

  • We read each company’s own filings with the US Securities and Exchange Commission (or its home regulator) and save a copy in our archive. A program checks every figure and passage against that copy, and the page gives the printed page number.
  • Audited figures and unaudited ones are labeled as the filing labels them. Where a sum or a difference is ours, the page says so.
  • We do not forecast, and we do not say whether a company is worth what investors pay for it. Nothing here is investment advice.