Gauntlet AI founder Austen Allred disputes reports of massive Anthropic customer spending, calling the figures mathematically implausible
Gary Marcus claims details validating the high spending will emerge.
i have strong reason to believe this is cope. we may find out soon…
Austen Allred@AustenIm calling BS on this story. 1. That would be 100,000 employees spending $5k/mo each or 10,000 employees averaging $50k/mo each. No way. 2. Anthropic isn’t going to float that much on an invoice without checking in 3. The source being a consultant talking about a client = lie
this is on track to be this year’s “what did Ilya see?” rumor that people love that has nothing to do with reality.
Austen Allred@AustenIm calling BS on this story. 1. That would be 100,000 employees spending $5k/mo each or 10,000 employees averaging $50k/mo each. No way. 2. Anthropic isn’t going to float that much on an invoice without checking in 3. The source being a consultant talking about a client = lie
@Austen i am calling BS on your calling BS. i spoke to the reporter in question and I believe the reporting is solid.
Austen Allred@AustenIm calling BS on this story. 1. That would be 100,000 employees spending $5k/mo each or 10,000 employees averaging $50k/mo each. No way. 2. Anthropic isn’t going to float that much on an invoice without checking in 3. The source being a consultant talking about a client = lie
“Maybe it was AWS”
Amazon is an investor in Anthropic + AWS offers Anthropic as a vendor and has outrageous amounts of tooling for managing compute spend
Austen Allred@AustenIm calling BS on this story. 1. That would be 100,000 employees spending $5k/mo each or 10,000 employees averaging $50k/mo each. No way. 2. Anthropic isn’t going to float that much on an invoice without checking in 3. The source being a consultant talking about a client = lie