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There’s a lot more below. But first, let’s take a look at the A.I. economy.
A.I. by the numbers
Which artificial intelligence firm will become the biggest company ever to debut on the stock market? Anthropic offered the opening bid on Monday, when it released its plan to offer shares on the Nasdaq exchange.
The numbers are staggering. In the first half of this year, Anthropic earned $16.3 billion. In that same period, it lost $80.7 billion. But it’s growing fast. Its potential valuation in the initial public offering is $2 trillion.
Here’s what that number looks like, written out: $2,000,000,000,000. It’s hard to imagine. Two thousand billion dollars. The average U.S. household’s annual income is $126,700, according to the Census Bureau. That household would need nearly 16 million years in order to reach $2 trillion, and then only if it saved every single penny.
As companies and investors wrestle with the colossal size of the A.I. economy — and as the markets they serve grow anxious about whether it’s all just a bubble, sure to burst — Evan Gorelick and I thought an index would be a useful way to examine what’s happening. Numbers (even ginormous ones!) can help us understand what’s happening in the world.
Workers who reported using A.I. as part of their jobs in 2023: 30 percent
Workers who reported using A.I. as part of their jobs in 2025: 76 percent