Anthropic’s Compute Costs Are Likely Much Higher Than Reported — $1.35 Billion in 2024 on AWS AloneHowever, Anthropic is telling people it spent $1.5 billion on just training when it has an Amazon Web Services bill of $1.35 billion, which heavily suggests that its actual compute costs are significantly higher than we thought, because, to quote SemiAnalysis, “a large share of Anthropic’s spending is going to Google Cloud.”
But also:
Anthropic has, based on what I can find, raised $32 billion in the last two years, starting out 2023 with a $4 billion investment from Amazon from September 2023 (bringing the total to $37.5 billion), where Amazon was named its “primary cloud provider” nearly eight months after Anthropic announced Google was Anthropic’s “cloud provider.,” which Google responded to a month later by investing another $2 billion on October 27 2023, “involving a $500 million upfront investment and an additional $1.5 billion to be invested over time,” bringing its total funding from 2023 to $6 billion.
That's incredibly circular.