Anthropic says rule-breaking customers made up 5% to 7% of its 2026 revenue
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The Claude maker told investors that distillation by Chinese AI labs padded its sales, and cutting them off has slowed its growth ahead of a planned IPO Anthropic has told investors something most companies would rather not admit. A meaningful slice of its 2026 revenue came from customers who were breaking its rules. The company behind the Claude models estimates that terms-of-service violators produced 5% to 7% of its revenue across the first nine months of 2026. Most of those violators, according to Anthropic, were Chinese AI labs using Claude to train their own competing models.
Source: Crypto Briefing
