Two labs each reach a tenth of a percent of US GDP

Claim

Elad Gil noted OpenAI and Anthropic each already sit at 0.1% of US GDP with one to two percent combined plausible within a year, while a new class of startups brags about spending more on AI than on people.

Reported metric: 0.1% of GDP each

Reporting date: 2026-04-23 (not necessarily the event date)

Sources

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• Welcome to April 23, 2026 (theinnermostloop.substack.com)