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Mystery company accidentally blew $500 million on Claude in a single month — failed to put usage limit on licenses for employees (www.tomshardware.com)
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[–] merc@sh.itjust.works 71 points 1 day ago (3 children)

What's funnier is that typically the AI providers lose money on every query their customers make. So, this may have cost some company $500m to Anthropic, but it cost Anthropic a whole lot more than that.

[–] paranoia@feddit.dk 2 points 4 hours ago

Anthropic is projecting a half a billion dollars profit this quarter

[–] garbage_world@lemmy.world 1 points 11 hours ago

Proof? I've heard otherwise and you were first to make a statement

[–] ivanafterall@lemmy.world 48 points 1 day ago (2 children)

What a brilliant business model.

[–] merc@sh.itjust.works 26 points 1 day ago* (last edited 15 hours ago) (1 children)

They make it up in volume.

(Volume being how loudly they shout about how it's going to change the world and dupe more people into investing.)

[–] heartSagan5@lemmy.zip 2 points 23 hours ago

Oh, it’s changing the world alright. It’s burning more resources than just finding some skilled people. It guzzles water and electricity and whatever it cost to make those wafers.

So, not a net positive since at some point, this may become a hellscape.

[–] perviouslyiner@lemmy.world 7 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

maybe they are planning ahead for the business model in a few years time, when nobody can do any work without claude, and they get to charge their preferred "monopoly enshittification" price?

[–] davidagain@lemmy.world 5 points 16 hours ago

Absolutely this is the plan.