Sources: Meta internally projected that it could spend as much as $10B annually on Anthropic's AI models, even as Zuckerberg publicly criticized Anthropic (New York Times)
Meta’s private AI planning treated Anthropic as a potential multibillion-dollar supplier, even while Meta attacked it in public.
The New York Times report says Meta internally projected annual Anthropic model spending as high as $10 billion. The point is the uneasy dependency inside the AI race: rivals may criticize each other while still needing one another’s tools. Techmeme’s item also notes related chatter about Meta’s “Watermelon” pretraining run being paused in July for unknown reasons, delaying launch to October. Techmeme's note
The New York Times report says Meta internally projected annual Anthropic model spending as high as $10 billion. The point is the uneasy dependency inside the AI race: rivals may criticize each other while still needing one another’s tools. Techmeme’s item also notes related chatter about Meta’s “Watermelon” pretraining run being paused in July for unknown reasons, delaying launch to October. Techmeme's note
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