Anthropic just announced it has crossed $30 billion in annualized revenue, and it is only the beginning of April. Two months ago, that number was sitting at $14 billion. Before that, it was $9 billion at the end of 2025 and it was barely $1 billion in late 2024. The growth curve has gone from impressive to nearly vertical in the span of a single year. Also, Anthropic just signed the largest compute deal in the company's entire history. They have locked in multiple gigawatts of next-generation TPU computing power through a three-way agreement with Google and Broadcom, with that capacity coming online starting in 2027. To understand the sheer scale of what that means, the average American nuclear plant generates roughly one gigawatt of power. Anthropic is reserving more than three times that amount in pure computing electricity, dedicated entirely to running its AI models. The really striking part is not the size of the deal but rather the diversity of the hardware strategy behind it. Anthropic trains and runs Claude simultaneously on AWS Trainium chips through Project Rainier, on Google TPUs manufactured by Broadcom, and on NVIDIA GPUs across multiple data centers. Claude is now the only frontier AI model in the world available on all three of the largest cloud platforms at once: Amazon Web Services Bedrock, Google Cloud Vertex AI, and Microsoft Azure Foundry. That kind of multi-cloud, multi-chip architecture is not an accident but a deliberate hedge against supply bottlenecks and a signal of how seriously Anthropic is treating infrastructure as a competitive weapon. Back in December, Broadcom's CEO revealed a mystery customer had placed a $10 billion custom chip order and then quietly disclosed it was Anthropic. That was followed almost immediately by another $11 billion order in the same quarter. Now the total commitment has expanded again with this new multi-gigawatt deal set to come online in 2027. Broadcom CEO Hock Tan has told investors the company expects to generate close to $100 billion in AI chip revenue in 2027, with Anthropic as one of its primary drivers. The customer growth numbers are the most alarming signal of all for Anthropic's competitors. When Anthropic raised $30 billion at a $380 billion valuation in February, it disclosed that 500 business customers were each spending over $1 million per year on Claude. Today, less than two months after that announcement, that number has already doubled to more than 1,000 enterprise customers at that same spending threshold. Eight of the Fortune 10 companies are already running critical workloads on Claude, which means the world's most powerful corporations have quietly made Anthropic a core piece of their operations. The forecast that looked wildly optimistic in January is now starting to look like it may be too conservative. Internal projections earlier this year suggested Anthropic might reach $18 billion in annual revenue for all of 2026. The company has already blown past that figure as a run rate before the second quarter has even started. Its own bullish internal forecast called for $55 billion in 2027, a number that, at the current trajectory, no longer sounds like science fiction.