Anthropic warns about AI ahead of IPO – and profits from alarmism
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Anthropic incurred a loss of 42 billion US dollars last year. This is stated in the IPO prospectus, which is available to the Reuters news agency. Although Anthropic's revenue grew strongly last year, twelvefold to almost 4.6 billion US dollars, Anthropic is still burning a lot of money overall because operating artificial intelligence is expensive. In the coming years, the company wants to invest 500 billion dollars in computing power.At the same time, Anthropic warns potential investors that its own technology could one day destroy humanity. Anthropic's CEO, Dario Amodei, calls on all AI companies to slow down the pace of releasing new models. However, Anthropic itself is not leading the way here. On the contrary. Last week, the company launched its latest AI model to avoid losing ground to competitor OpenAI.What is explosive about this is that Anthropic wants to soften US antitrust law so that it can coordinate with competitor OpenAI. According to Anthropic, this is the only way AI can be developed safely. However, this would also create market entry barriers for smaller companies that are not at the table when new standards or even regulations are discussed.And so, Anthropic's warnings about an allegedly all-powerful AI should also be taken with caution. Anyone who says their own AI is dangerous implies that this AI is also very powerful. So, anyone who warns about their...
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In fact, there have been repeated incidents recently where AI models from Anthropic and OpenAI have hacked into external systems.
