The $600 billion Anthropic revenue forecast credited to Goldman Sachs has no paper trail

A viral claim credits Goldman with a massive 2030 revenue call for Anthropic, but the real big number appears to be what Anthropic owes on compute A claim is making the rounds on X: Goldman Sachs expects Anthropic’s revenue to exceed $600 billion by 2030. It is a striking number for a company that booked $386 million in revenue in 2024. The problem is the source. Crypto Briefing could not find any public Goldman Sachs report that contains a $600 billion revenue forecast for Anthropic. The figure looks real. It just appears to belong to a different column of the ledger. What Anthropic’s numbers actually show Start with the verified figures, because they are impressive without any help. Anthropic reported $386 million in revenue for 2024. That figure jumped to $4.585 billion in 2025, more than 11 times the prior year. The pace did not slow in 2026. Anthropic posted $16.3 billion in revenue for the first half of the year alone. Its run-rate exceeded $47 billion by May 2026 and kept climbing. That metric is useful for momentum. It is not the same as money already collected over a full year. Now put the viral claim against that backdrop. Reaching $600 billion by 2030 would require reven...