I don't believe any company accidentally spent $500 million on Claude in a month. The number is an order of magnitude too large to be plausible.
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Timothy B. Lee challenges rumors of a company accidentally spending $500 million on Anthropic's Claude in a single month
Manheim says that scale requires thousands of unmonitored agents.
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Ethan Mollick@emollick
This story was so implausible that the only way it even (kind of) made sense if it is some sort of internal accounting placeholder at a cloud provider using their own compute. And even then it seems unbelievable for a wide number of reasons.
Timothy B. Lee@binarybits
I don't believe any company accidentally spent $500 million on Claude in a month. The number is an order of magnitude too large to be plausible.
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