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Hindustan Times
27-05-2025
- Business
- Hindustan Times
AI might let one or two people run billion-dollar companies by 2026, says top CEO
Artificial intelligence could soon lead to the rise of solopreneurs, one or two staff members who could single-handedly run a billion-dollar company as early as 2026, Dario Amodei, the co-founder and CEO of Anthropic, said. At Anthropic's Code with Claude developer conference, Amodei claimed that new AI models are so advanced that they could help single-person businesses grow like never before. Instagram co-founder Mike Krieger, who is also Anthropic's chief product officer, asked Amodei if a single person could create such a business using AI; he said it could happen as early as 2026. 'I think it'll be in an area where you don't need a lot of human-institution-centric stuff to make money,' Amodei added, suggesting that proprietary trading would be the first to be automated like that. He also suggested that by integrating AI, single-person companies creating tools for software developers could grow as prime candidates for businesses that don't require many salespeople and can automate customer service. 'It's not that crazy. I built a billion-dollar company with 13 people. I think now you'd be able to do a better job than we did with AI," Krieger said, adding that Instagram had to scale up because of content moderation. In 2012, Facebook purchased Instagram for $1 billion. Could he have built Instagram solo with Claude 4? Not quite, said Krieger. He'd still need his original co-founder, Kevin Systrom — but with Claude's help, the two of them could probably pull it off. At the same event, Anthropic launched Claude 4, its latest line of advanced AI models. The lineup includes Claude 4 Opus, a powerful but pricey model described as 'the world's best coding model', and Claude 4 Sonnet, a more affordable, mid-sized option designed for broader use. (Also read: OpenAI model disobeys humans, refuses to shut down. Elon Musk says 'concerning')
India Today
26-05-2025
- Business
- India Today
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei predict AI will allow just one person to run a billion dollar company by 2026
Imagine a future where a billion-dollar business is run by a single person: no massive teams, no fancy boardrooms, and no endless meetings. Just one individual and a very powerful AI assistant. According to Dario Amodei, the co-founder and CEO of Anthropic, that future might not be so far off. In fact, it could arrive as soon as 2026. Speaking at Anthropic's recent 'Code with Claude' developer conference in San Francisco, Amodei made a striking prediction: He says that it is very likely that we'll see a single-person company reach a billion-dollar valuation in the next year or so, thanks to was responding to a question from Anthropic's chief product officer (who also co-founded Instagram) Mike Krieger. He asked whether such a scenario was even possible. Amodei did not hesitate: 'Yes, I think it will happen.' The Anthropic CEO also softened his stance later as he said that there is a 70 to 80 per cent chance that his prediction will come true, but it is still a bold bet on where the world is what kind of business could be run by just one person and scale to such heights? Amodei pointed to industries that don't depend heavily on people-driven processes. His top pick? Proprietary trading, where firms invest their own capital instead of managing client money. With AI capable of crunching data, spotting trends, and even making decisions faster than any human trader, a one-person hedge fund no longer seems like science area ripe for solo disruption is developer tools. Think of a software engineer building products for other developers, using AI to write and maintain nearly all the code. With automation taking care of customer support, billing, and even marketing, the lone founder can focus entirely on building and improving the product.'It's not that crazy,' Krieger added. 'I built a billion-dollar company with 13 people.' He was, of course, talking about Instagram, which was sold to Facebook for $1 billion in 2012. Back then, the main challenge was content moderation. Today, with AI, even that can be handled with minimal human isn't the first time Amodei has made such forward-looking claims. Earlier this year, he said that by the end of 2025, AI will be responsible for writing nearly all software code, between 90 and 100 per cent of it. If that turns out to be true, the barrier to entry for starting a tech business could fall dramatically. Want to build an app or launch a SaaS company? You might not need a team of engineers any more. Just you and a powerful AI that's exactly what Anthropic is the same event, the company unveiled two new AI models: Claude Opus 4 and Claude Sonnet 4. Opus 4 is being pitched as the most advanced coding model on the market, designed for long, complex projects and agent-style tasks that require the AI to act independently. Sonnet 4, meanwhile, is a faster, more efficient model available to free-tier users, a move that signals Anthropic's intent to make high-quality AI more and his team believe these tools will do more than just help developers write better code. They'll allow people to build entire businesses, from scratch, on their course, there are still hurdles. Legal, regulatory, and trust issues remain when it comes to fully automated businesses. And not every industry will be open to AI-led disruption. But Amodei seems confident that the first wave of one-person unicorns, startups valued at over $1 billion, will arrive sooner than most expect. And when that happens, we may have to rethink everything we know about entrepreneurship.
