[eviks]

There are other numbers besides 1 and infinity, though

[khuey]

I believe the reason to use 1 year comes from the customer's side: prepayments of services that extend past 1 year have to be capitalized for tax purposes, whereas prepayments of services for 1 year or less can be expensed immediately.

[muzani]

Tracking "revenue" past one financial year is its own accounting hell.

[mrbungie]

Customers pay Anthropic, in part, so they can figure that one out.

[OutOfHere]

It is not actually revenue until it has been spent by the customer. Until then it's just customer funds.

[eviks]

No, that's just accounting