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Anthropic 的人才成本高昂
Anthropic 的人员费用同比增长 486%，达到 31.52 亿美元，远超算力支出 283% 的增幅。
这使每花费 1 美元算力费用对应的员工支出从 0.23 美元升至 0.35 美元。
股权激励是这一变化的主要驱动因素，其费用从 2.86 亿美元攀升至 22 亿美元，约占人员费用的 70%。
剔除股权激励后，人员成本增长约 3.8 倍，接近算力支出的增速，因此，认为研究变得更加依赖人力的依据主要来自股权激励的会计处理。
Anthropic 上半年在研究上花费 97.41 亿美元，但其 89.45 亿美元的算力账单中，在支付为客户提供服务的费用后，只有约 66 亿美元可用于研究。这意味着研究支出中约有 32 亿美元并非算力费用，接近其 31.52 亿美元的员工支出，因此其大部分员工成本似乎用于研究。申报文件并未直接说明这一点，因此应将其视为估算。
同期收入增长 14 倍，达到 162.86 亿美元，增速远超上述两项成本；Anthropic 报告称，过去 12 个月的人均收入超过 660 万美元，高于此前的 140 万美元。
Anthropic 已承诺向许多员工授予股份，但这些股份只有在公司上市后才会完全归员工所有，因此公司尚未将这部分报酬计入成本。
IPO 发生时，公司必须一次性确认此前累积的全部股份报酬，因此该季度的人员成本将大幅跃升，尽管员工并未因此额外工作。
原文
Anthropic’s human talent comes at a steep price Anthropic’s personnel bill rose 486% to $3.152B, far outpacing a 283% jump in compute, year on year. Lifted staff spending from $0.23 to $0.35 per compute dollar. Stock-based compensation drove most of that shift, climbing from $286M to $2.2B and reaching about 70% of personnel expense. Excluding stock pay, personnel costs grew roughly 3.8X, close to compute’s pace, so the case for labor-heavier research rests mainly on equity accounting. Anthropic spent $9.741B on research in the first half, but only about $6.6B of its $8.945B compute bill was left for research after it paid to serve customers. That leaves roughly $3.2B of research spending that isn’t compute, which is close to the $3.152B it spent on staff, so most of its staff cost appears to go into research. The filing never says this directly, so treat it as an estimate. Revenue rose 14 times to $16.286B over the same period, far faster than either cost line, and Anthropic reports trailing revenue per employee above $6.6M, up from $1.4M. Anthropic has promised many employees shares that only fully become theirs once the company goes public, so it hasn’t yet counted that pay as a cost. When the IPO happens, it has to record all of that built-up share pay at once, so its staff costs will jump sharply in that quarter even though no one did any extra work.