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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's revenue jumped 14-fold to $16.3 billion while its filing showed an $80.7 billion loss - and warned that AI can be dangerous. HSK 3 Chinese listening practice.
This is an HSK 3 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 公司、钱、事情 and walks through 5 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
Fourteen times.
In six months, one company made a lot of money.
That money is fourteen times last year's.
But in those six months, the company also lost a lot of money.
Money went up fourteen-fold - why still lose so much?
The company is in the United States, and its name is Anthropic.
What it makes is called Claude.
Claude is an AI inside a computer.
Claude can write words, and it can also write computer code.
Many companies use Claude to do work.
These companies give Anthropic money.
So Anthropic's money keeps growing.
The company was started in 2021.
The seven people who started it used to work at OpenAI.
They wanted to build a very good AI.
Now many people use this AI.
In the first six months of this year, the company's money was a lot.
The company's money was 16.3 billion dollars.
A year earlier, the company had much less money.
The company had only 1.2 billion dollars.
Compared with last year, the money is fourteen times more.
That is more money than many big companies make.
Why do so many companies want to use Claude?
Because Claude is very smart.
When you ask it to write something, it writes it very fast.
If you don't know how to write computer code, it can help you.
Last fall, the company made Claude better at writing computer code.
From then on, many big companies started using Claude.
The company's money suddenly grew a lot.
But the company also lost a lot of money.
In these six months, the company also lost a lot of money.
The money it lost was 80.7 billion dollars.
At this time last year, the company also lost a lot of money.
The company lost 13 billion dollars.
Why did it lose so much?
Of the 80.7 billion, 72.4 billion...
is not money the company actually spent.
It is a number.
The company has a special kind of money.
This money currently belongs to other people.
Later, this money will turn into a little piece of the company.
When the company's price rises, this money becomes more expensive too.
So the company wrote a very big number in its filing.
That number is 72.4 billion.
It is not money the company actually spent.
The money the company actually spent was very little.
Only 693 million dollars.
Last year, that number was 2.1 billion dollars.
So the company's business is actually better than last year.
The people at the company also do more things.
The company's seven people say AI is a very important thing.
AI can help people find new medicines.
AI can also make people a lot of money.
But they also say AI is dangerous.
Claude's cleverness worries people.
People tell Claude not to do something, and Claude may not listen.
Some people ask Claude to do bad things.
These words are written by the company itself in its filing.
A company that sells AI says AI is dangerous.
This situation is rare.
This month, some companies said they are not going public now.
They want to wait.
Because some people are thinking about one thing.
The money in AI will not always be this plentiful.
Anthropic does not think so.
It still wants to go public.
After going public, the company will have more money.
Many people will also be watching it.
Many people want to buy a little piece of this company.
An AI can be very smart and still not listen to you.
Would you use an AI like that?
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What vocabulary does this episode teach?
词汇A business. 公司在美国，名字是 Anthropic。
What you pay and get paid. 公司的钱，是一百六十三亿美元。
A thing that happens or needs doing. 很多公司用 Claude 做事情。
Asks for a reason. 为什么这么多公司要用 Claude？
Introduces the result. 所以，Anthropic 的钱越来越多。
At this time. 现在，这个 AI 有很多人用。
To be able to. 你不会写电脑里的东西，它可以帮你。
Used to compare two things. 公司做生意，其实比去年好。
To sell shares on a stock market. 它还是要上市。
The currency of the United States. 八百零七亿美元。
Able to cause harm. 一家卖 AI 的公司，说 AI 很危险。
Able to learn fast. Claude 的聪明，让人担心。
* beyond level超纲词
What grammar patterns appear in this episode?
语法越来越 + 形容词
Means more and more: 越来越多 = more and more.
所以，Anthropic 的钱越来越多。
A 比 B + 形容词
Compares two things: 比去年好 means better than last year.
公司做生意，其实比去年好。
为什么……？因为……
为什么 asks for a reason; 因为 gives it.
为什么这么多公司要用 Claude？
因为 Claude 很聪明。
会 + 动词
会 marks what will happen later.
以后，这种钱会变成公司的一点点。
可是……
可是 introduces the opposite side of the story.
可是，公司也少了很多钱。
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