Chamath Palihapitiya
· Chamath Palihapitiya
· August 30, 2026 at 15:05
· ⏱ 4 min read
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Summary
AI monetization is moving to public markets: Anthropic is preparing an IPO claiming a $30T addressable market, with $11.5B in Q2 revenue and a 2028 projection of roughly $200B, while Salesforce's one-day surge and Claudeforce launch show investors rewarding AI integration into software. The robotics section shows single-demo learning improving but still below reliable autonomous deployment, making this an early-stage theme rather than a mature trade.
•WSJ reported Anthropic is preparing to tell IPO investors that its TAM exceeds $30 trillion, with a possible raise of up to $100 billion at a valuation near $2 trillion.
•Anthropic's Q2 revenue passed $11.5 billion, its first profitable quarter, a 14-fold increase versus the same quarter last year, and it projects 2028 revenue of $190 billion to $200 billion.
•Salesforce reported Q2 revenue of ~$11.3 billion, up ~11%, and net income of $3.53 billion, including $2.6 billion from strategic investments mostly in its Anthropic stake; the stock rose 22% the next day.
•Salesforce Ventures put roughly $50 million into Anthropic's Series C in early 2023, and Bloomberg valued the position near $5 billion in June.
•Claudeforce, announced by Marc Benioff and Dario Amodei, puts Salesforce in Claude as a pilot with open beta in September and 37 prebuilt sales skills, while Claude becomes the default model behind Agentforce and Slack AI.
•Generalist's GEN-1.5 averaged 59% success across 10 tasks from a single demonstration without retraining, while Skild AI showed a video demo achieved 66% success at 100,000 training hours versus 9% with written instructions.
Salesforce's Q2 beat, 22% stock jump, and Claudeforce launch with Claude as default model behind Agentforce and Slack AI show the market rewarding AI monetization inside CRM software.
Salesforce's Q2 beat, 22% stock jump, and Claudeforce launch with Claude as default model behind Agentforce and Slack AI show the market rewarding AI monetization inside CRM software.
Risk: Earnings included $2.6B from strategic investments, mostly Anthropic, so the reported profit is partly dependent on Anthropic's valuation.
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