This Is How Much Anthropic and Cursor Spend On Amazon Web Services
So, I originally planned for this to be on my premium newsletter, but decided it was better to publish on my free one so that you could all enjoy it. If you liked it, please consider subscribing to support my work. Here’s $10 off the first year of annual. I’ve also recorded an episode about this on my podcast Better Offline (RSS feed, Apple, Spotify, iHeartRadio), it’s a little different but both handle the same information, just subscribe and it'll pop up. Over the last two years I have written again and again about the ruinous costs of running generative AI services, and today I’m coming to you with real proof. Based on discussions with sources with direct knowledge of their AWS billing, I am able to disclose the amounts that AI firms are spending, specifically Anthropic and AI coding company Cursor, its largest customer. I can exclusively reveal today Anthropic’s spending on Amazon Web Services for the entirety of 2024, and for every month in 2025 up until September, and that that A
So, I originally planned for this to be on my premium newsletter, but decided it was better to publish on my free one so that you could all enjoy it. If you liked it, please consider subscribing to support my work. Here’s $10 off the first year of annual . I’ve also recorded an episode about this on my podcast Better Offline ( RSS feed , Apple , Spotify , iHeartRadio ), it’s a little different but both handle the same information, just subscribe and it'll pop up. Over the last two years I have written again and again about the ruinous costs of running generative AI services, and today I’m comi
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