SK Telecom $SKM Handing Out Free Stakes in $4T Anthropic
Ticker: $SKM
Positions (proof: https://imgur.com/HdXnafh):
|Contract|Position|Market value (USD)|
|:-|:-|:-|
|SKM Jun18'26 $40 Call|770|235,487.36|
|SKM Sep18'26 $45 Call|330|139,133.21|
|SKM Sep18'26 $50 Call|430|131,230.69|
|SKM Jun18'26 $45 Call|450|71,539.08|
|SKM May15'26 $35 Call|100|44,495.99|
|SKM May15'26 $40 Call|250|22,301.91|
|SKM Sep18'26 $55 Call|100|21,041.23|
|SKM Jun18'26 $55 Call|400|18,815.80|
|SKM Jun18'26 $50 Call|200|17,144.55|
|Total|3,030 contracts|$701,189.82|
TLDR
- Anthropic blatantly worth gazillions. I'm saying $4T. This is well ahead of market consensus and could be down to the crack I've been smoking.
- Found some live data points that suggest it is even more dominant than thought.
- $SKM at EV $22.4B, $15B Mcap and ADR $39.08 is holding 0.54% of Anthro on the DL.
- $SKM invested in other AI lovelies from 2022. Some of them glitter too.
- SOTP in $SKM has 18% upside on the core alone.
- Oh forgot Anthropic. Throw them in and you get total equity $38.2B and ADR $99.57. +155% upside.
- I am long via the May, June and September call stack above. Pick your own strikes.
The $4 trillion Anthropic
Revenue explosion
Anthropic's reported ARR by month:
|Month|ARR ($B)|Source|
|:-|:-|:-|
|Dec 2025|9|Anthropic|
|Jan 2026|14|Reuters / The Information|
|Feb 2026|19|The Information|
|Mar 2026|30|Anthropic press release 7 April|
|Apr 2026|45|Financial Times, early May ("almost 45", five sources)|
YTD growth rate is 12,400% annualised. Holy smokes.
From the $45B April base:
|MoM rate|Dec 2026 ARR ($B)|Context|
|:-|:-|:-|
|50% flat|1,070|More than Amazon's revenue today. Punchy.|
|25% flat|265|Past Meta's $215B. Microsoft is at $320B.|
|10% flat|71|Still remarkable.|
|Tapering 45% MoM down to 10% at YE|304|My pick|
Comparisons
Only comp for growth at this scale is NVIDIA, which peaked at 206% YoY in late 2023 at a $73B annualised quarterly run rate. 16x Rev. Today $5T on $200B revenue at 60% growth. EV / Revenue 24x.
Snowflake got 130x on $500M revenue at IPO on 120% growth. Palantir is on 42x on $8B today with 71% growth.
12,400% is more than that. I say 90x Revenue for Anthropic. $4T please.
Cross-check: NVIDIA peaked at \~16x forward revenue when growing at 200%. Snowflake IPO'd at 130x at 120%. Anthropic at 12,400% should clear 90x in its sleep.
Morons may say global enterprise IT spend, per finger-in-the-air merchants Gartner, is $1.6T. Claude isn't going to take 20% of that by year-end.
Lucky that is not the TAM. Knowledge work is what is up for grabs. Keyboard warriors. Which means all you losers.
Some of you may start whimpering that other models are just as good, or that the free ones work just as well. Nah. Do you want the best or not? Not you oxygen-kidnappers of course, I mean real businesses, because that's where Anthropic's revenue is coming from.
This powerful market research is likely already too complex for you to follow, but I have gone the extra mile...
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OpenRouter lets you switch between hundreds of models willy nilly. It is for the connoisseurs and the tinkerers. Good guide to what is hot and what is not. They happen to give real time data.
Last week:
|Company|Tokens (T)|Tokens share|Revenue ($M)|Dollar share|Avg price ($/M)|
|:-|:-|:-|:-|:-|:-|
|Anthropic|3.87|18.2%|33.2|63.7%|8.59|
|OpenAI|1.85|8.7%|8.1|15.5%|4.37|
|Google|3.43|16.1%|3.9|7.5%|1.14|
|MoonshotAI|2.00|9.4%|2.9|5.6%|1.47|
|Z.ai|0.84|3.9%|1.2|2.3%|1.40|
|DeepSeek|2.99|14.0%|1.0|1.9%|0.33|
|MiniMax|1.03|4.9%|0.6|1.1%|0.54|
|Qwen|0.77|3.6%|0.4|0.8%|0.52|
|xAI|0.78|3.7%|0.3|0.5%|0.37|
|Tencent|1.10|5.2%|0.1|0.3%|0.12|
|Others|2.60|12.3%|0.4|0.8%|0.15|
|Total|21.26|100%|52.1|100%|2.45|
Good God.
Anthropic taking 64% of the whole market. Charging double OpenAI and 8x Google. Moonshot can take a bow. Everyone else is nowhere.
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