Anthropic Hits $20B Revenue Milestone as OpenAI Teases GPT-5.4 and Loses Key VP
Model Releases & Updates
OpenAI Announces Upcoming GPT-5.4 Release: OpenAI has teased the imminent arrival of GPT-5.4, continuing its rapid iteration cycle following the recent launch of GPT-5.3 Instant. This upcoming version is expected to provide users with further enhanced capabilities and improved model performance.
Qwen3.5-35B-A3B Shows High Performance on SWE-bench: The Qwen3.5-35B-A3B model achieved a 37.8% score on the SWE-bench Verified Hard benchmark, nearly matching the 40% score of Claude Opus 4.6. This performance was enabled by a specialized verification strategy that highlights the potential of smaller models when paired with effective agentic workflows.
Industry News & Financials
Anthropic Reaches $20 Billion Revenue Run Rate: Anthropic's annualized revenue has surged to nearly $20 billion as of March 2026, up from approximately $1 billion in January 2025. This rapid financial growth reflects the company's aggressive market expansion and successful enterprise business strategies over the past year.
OpenAI VP for Post Training Joins Anthropic: Max Schwarzer, a prominent researcher and VP for Post Training at OpenAI, has departed the company to join rival Anthropic. Schwarzer was instrumental in OpenAI's advancements in reasoning paradigms and scaling test-time compute.
Benchmarks & Developer Tools
DystopiaBench Evaluates AI Safety in Authoritarian Scenarios: A new benchmark called DystopiaBench has been released to test whether AI models will assist in creating dystopian or "Orwellian" scenarios. Early results indicate that Anthropic’s models are the most safety-compliant, showing the highest refusal rates for such content compared to OpenAI and Google.
New Open-Source "Super-Skills" Launched for Perplexity and Claude: A new project has merged over 40 skills from Perplexity Computer with top community skills from Claude Code to create 10 cross-platform "Super-Skills." These open-source tools cover domains like development and marketing, and are fully compatible with the agentskills.io specification.