Anthropic and OpenAI account for 89 percent of revenues from AI models and applications generated by 34 leading AI startups, with their combined share rising steadily from July 2023 through April 2026
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Chart scales revenue pool to $80 billion across listed startups.
In an early meeting at Facebook (c. 2007), when I was describing the goals of Facebook Platform (an area I oversaw) Bill Gates yelled at me/us.
His quote has stuck with me to this day:
“This isn’t a platform. A platform is where the collective sum of revenues of the participants exceeds those of the platform itself.”
Ladies and gentlemen, I present to you the tokenmaxxing circle jerk.

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