Dario Amodei, chief executive of Anthropic, said on Wednesday that his artificial intelligence company had planned to grow about 10 times this year, only to achieve a growth rate that could be 80 times this year.
Mr. Amodei, 43, made his remarks at Anthropic’s annual developer conference in San Francisco, where he and other executives got a glimpse of the company’s plans. Anthropic is one of the world’s leading AI startups with its Claude chatbot and the popular AI coding tool Claude Code, which people can pay to subscribe to. Last month, Anthropic he said its annual sales rate exceeded $30 billion, up from $9 billion at the end of 2025.
At the conference, Mr. Amodei said Anthropic was impressed by the rate of growth, which increased the company’s need for computing power to deliver its AI products to customers.
“I hope the 80x growth doesn’t continue because that’s just crazy and it’s too hard to manage,” Mr Amodei said. “I’m hoping for some more normal numbers.”
In order to get more computing power, Anthropic signed a number of agreements with industry giants. At the conference, Anthropic said it had struck a deal with Elon Musk’s SpaceX to use all of the computing power from 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.
Antropic declined to disclose terms of the deal. SpaceX did not respond to a request for comment.
“As you saw today with the SpaceX computing service agreement, we’re working as fast as we can to provide more computing capacity than we’ve had in the past,” Mr. Amodei said, using the industry term for computing power. He added that his company was working every day to “get even more computing power” for users.
With the SpaceX deal, Anthropic said, it can expand the amount of coding that some Claude Code subscribers can do before hitting the tool’s usage limit. Anthropic offers people different prices depending on how much coding they want to do.
