Anthropic is accelerating its enterprise strategy with a new $200 million multi-year partnership with Snowflake while its CEO cautions that the AI industry faces significant financial uncertainty. Speaking at The New York Times DealBook Summit, Dario Amodei expressed confidence in AI’s long-term economic potential but warned that rapid investment in compute infrastructure can expose companies to serious risk if market adoption slows or hardware rapidly depreciates. He said some competitors are aggressively overextending without properly mapping spending on data centers to real revenue growth.
Anthropic’s own performance highlights both momentum and unpredictability: the company grew from zero to $100 million in revenue in 2023 and then to around $1 billion this year, but Amodei said future figures remain uncertain as the industry undergoes constant technological leaps.
Additionally, Anthropic continues to secure major enterprise deployments. Its long-standing collaboration with Snowflakewill now bring the Claude 4.5 family of AI models directly into Snowflake’s secure cloud data platform, enabling multimodal analysis and custom AI agents built on customers’ existing business data.
The deal reinforces Anthropic’s focus on enterprise rollout — following partnerships with giants including Deloitte and IBM — as businesses increasingly turn to Claude for safe, context-aware automation and decision intelligence within tightly governed data environments.
