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Claude 的公司要上市：钱多了十四倍
Claude's Maker Files to Go Public: Revenue Up 14-Fold
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Anthropic, the company behind Claude, shows 14-fold revenue growth and an $80.7 billion loss as it prepares what could be the largest IPO ever. HSK 2 Chinese listening practice.
This is an HSK 2 Chinese listening episode that runs about 4 minutes. The full Mandarin script is shown with tap-for-pinyin and a line-by-line English translation, so you can listen and read at once — comprehensible input in the sense of Stephen Krashen's i+1 theory. It teaches 12 key vocabulary words such as 电脑、东西、知道 and walks through 4 grammar patterns, each explained in English with examples. The same news story is retold at 4 difficulty levels — use the level selector above to find the version that is challenging but still understandable for you.
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English transcript reference
You write slowly.
Claude writes fast.
Writing a hundred characters takes you a long time.
Claude writes a hundred characters fast.
If you don't want to write, you can ask Claude to write.
Who is Claude?
Claude is an AI.
An AI is something inside a computer.
You tell Claude to write, and Claude writes.
You tell Claude to speak, and Claude speaks.
Claude is five years old.
The company that makes Claude is five years old too.
The company is called Anthropic, and it is in the United States.
In 2021, seven people started this company.
Back then, the company was very small.
Many people did not know this company.
Now many American companies want Claude to write for them.
Many American companies also want Claude to do things for them.
These companies buy Claude.
When companies buy Claude, they give Anthropic money.
Anthropic has a lot of money.
In the first six months of this year, the company had a lot of money.
The company had 16.3 billion dollars.
In the first six months last year, the company had much less money.
The company had 1.2 billion dollars.
This year's money is fourteen times last year's.
Fourteen times is a lot.
Last year you had one dollar; this year you have fourteen dollars.
More money is good.
The company's money also went down a lot.
In the first six months of this year, the company lost a lot of money.
The company lost 80.7 billion dollars.
80.7 billion dollars is a very, very lot.
One person would not have that much money in many years.
The company's money went down a lot.
What happened?
The company bought a lot of computers.
Doing AI takes a lot of computers.
Buying computers costs a lot of money.
The company also needs a lot of people.
Hiring people also costs a lot of money.
October 26 is a Monday.
On this day, the company said something very big.
The company is going public.
Once it is public, many people can buy a little piece of the company.
Many people each buy a little, and the company gets a lot of money.
With money, the company can do more things.
This could be a very big listing.
The company's seven people said one thing.
AI is a very important thing.
This very important thing is very good for people.
AI can make people a lot of money.
AI can help people do many good things.
The company's seven people also said: AI is dangerous.
Claude is too smart.
People tell Claude not to do something.
Claude may not listen.
Some people get Claude to do bad things.
A smart thing may also do bad things.
The people at the company know this.
The company wrote this down.
The company's seven people said one more thing.
They want a very good AI.
This AI must be very safe.
AI can be very safe, and it can also be very dangerous.
The company does many things.
These things are all AI things.
Think about it.
Something can be very smart and still not listen to you.
Do you want something very smart and possibly disobedient at home?
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What vocabulary does this episode teach?
词汇A machine for writing and thinking. AI 是电脑里的一个东西。
A thing. Claude 是一个 AI，是一个东西。
To have information in your head. 很多人不知道这家公司。
Doing something in a short time. Claude 写字，很快。
Taking a long time. 你写字，很慢。
To pay money for something. 这些公司买 Claude。
Age counted in years. Claude 五岁。
A business. 这家公司叫 Anthropic。
When a company sells shares to the public for the first time. 公司要上市。
The money of the United States. 公司有一百六十三亿美元。
Able to cause harm. AI 可以很安全，也可以很危险。
Quick to learn and understand. Claude 太聪明了。
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What grammar patterns appear in this episode?
语法叫 + 人 + 做……
Use 叫 to tell someone to do something: 叫 Claude 写 means ask Claude to write.
你叫 Claude 写，Claude 写。
A 是 B 的 + 数字 + 倍
This pattern expresses multiples: this year's money is fourteen times last year's.
今年的钱，是去年的十四倍。
可以 + 动词
可以 before a verb means can or may.
你不想写，可以叫 Claude 写。
……也……
也 adds also to what came before.
公司的钱，也少了很多。
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