Claude Code's revenue went from $0 to $1 billion in six months, making it the fastest growth of any business software in history.

Anthropic developed a new tool called Claude Code-work, a non-coding version of Claude Code, in a week and a half, almost entirely with Claude Opus.

Claude Code is experiencing a "breakout moment" among developers, particularly with the most recent model, Opus 4.5, enabling the creation of whole apps and end-to-end tasks.

OpenAI Codex/Claude went from a weekend project to 250,000 GitHub stars.

Anthropic started charging for API access in early 2023, reached a $1 billion run rate by the end of 2024, launched Claude Code in February 2025, reached $4 billion by mid-2025, $9 billion by end of 2025, and $30 billion by April 2026.

One in four businesses now pay for Claude, up from 1 in 25 a year ago.