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▶ 32:55 · $BASETEN · Baseten grouped with Together/Fireworks as open-source inference plays with capped upside
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SemiAnalysis

Ep. 020 - Anthropic vs OpenAI Usage, Margins, Meta Compute, Future of MSL (Tokenomics)

2026-07-22 · 9 company · 6 thematic
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speakers
max

Max founded Legora, a legal AI company that raised $600M in two weeks and pioneered consumption-based pricing to align token costs with customer value.

joey

SemiAnalysis researcher authoring the tokconomics newsletter on Anthropic/OpenAI business models, API margins, and frontier lab competitive dynamics.

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“Yeah, I mean I think uh together base and fireworks these are all super impressive businesses.”
—max
now playing · $BASETEN
$ANTHROPICbullish· highjoey
Anthropic's API-first model drives profitability and training reinvestment advantage
Anthropic's 80%+ API/enterprise revenue mix yields 85%+ gross margins on API, enabling Q2 profitability and potential $1B+ operating profit in Q3, allowing aggressive reinvestment…
$OPENAIbullish· mediumjoey
OpenAI's enterprise API surge flips revenue mix to 60/40 enterprise/consumer
OpenAI's net new ARR is now comparable to Anthropic's month-on-month after Codeex and 5.5/5.6 releases, with enterprise API share flipping from 40% to 60% in Q2, signaling a susta…
$SPCX···bullish· mediummax
xAI's compute rental with clawback clauses is a valid RSI financing strategy
xAI rents Colossus compute to Anthropic at 3-4x market rates with 90-day clawback, monetizing excess capacity while retaining option to reclaim GPUs if Grok reaches frontier — a s…
$META···bullish· mediummax
Meta's compute clawback strategy enables aggressive capex with MSL optionality
Meta's rumored neocloud with 90-day clawback clauses (like xAI's deals) provides a capex backstop — if MSL fails, Meta monetizes compute at 3-4x market rates; if MSL succeeds, it…
$GOOGL···bearish· highmax
Google's long-term TPU deals signal low AGI conviction, driving talent exodus
Google's inability to claw back TPUs from long-term cloud deals reveals leadership lacks conviction in achieving AGI/RSI, causing top researchers (Shazeer, Jumper) to leave DeepMi…
$BASETENneutral· lowmax
Baseten grouped with Together/Fireworks as open-source inference plays with capped upside
Baseten is categorized alongside Together AI and Fireworks as a token-as-a-service startup benefiting from open-source model inference demand, but facing structural share loss to…
$TOGETHER-AIneutral· mediummax
Together AI and peers are good businesses but will lose share to frontier labs' direct API
Token-as-a-service startups (Together, Fireworks, Baseten) benefit from open-source inference demand explosion, but Max expects their volume share to peak now and decline as front…
$FIREWORKS-AIbearish· mediummax
Fireworks' xAI exposure is temporary; labs will internalize optimization for new chips
Fireworks' early access to Grok models stems from Composer's post-training on Chem, but Max argues frontier labs will build first-party optimization for any successful new acceler…
$AMZN···neutral· mediumjoey
AWS Bedrock's 20-30% revenue share on Anthropic may face renegotiation pressure
AWS captures 20-30% revenue share on Anthropic API via Bedrock — a high-margin stream — but Anthropic's growing leverage and favorable initial terms (to bootstrap Trainium) could…