OpenAI revenue is still the number people reach for when they want a leaderboard. But the cleaner frame is different: Anthropic appears to be building a different kind of AI business, one centered on enterprise customers, safety positioning, and less dependence on mass-market fame. That distinction matters because public discussion keeps collapsing three separate things into one scorecard: revenue
When you have 5 unrelated questions, should you pack them into one message to the LLM, or send 5 requests simultaneously? Which is faster? Splitting into multiple independent parallel requests is almost always faster. This isn't a gut feeling — it's determined by the underlying inference mechanism of LLMs. Let's walk through the reasoning from first principles. To understand this problem, you firs