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From those retailers with billions of debt?

Seems more like a final fight against open weight models than a sustainable business model.

Anthropic has so much cash that they earn a billion dollars a year in interest alone.

Seeing comments about the major AI labs breathing their dying breathes because they have so much debt is really fascinating. The ideologies have started to exist in their own little bubble divorced from reality.

debt has to be paid by their customers at some point. Do you really think on top of the raised hardware costs they have a big enough budget to pay? Or would they switch to open weight as long it is good enough. I'm not sure which side here is the ideology. Where is the profit spike from all these AI customers?

What are you talking about? Anthropic doesn’t have debt. They have so much cash that they earn a billion dollars a year in interest.

Customers don’t have to pay off a company’s debt.

It feels like some of these anti-AI rants don’t even care about the facts. They have a story they believe and they’re going to be angry about it no matter what the facts are.

Well, it's not called debt, it's just a non-cancellable commitment. It needs to be refinanced anyway.

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