The New York Times reports Meta Platforms CEO Mark Zuckerberg has publicly
criticized rival Anthropic for seeking to centralize power and depicting the
future as bleak, saying such dominance would shift the balance toward large
institutions over individuals. At the same time, five people familiar with the
matter say Meta has become a heavy user of Anthropic’s AI products and is now
among its largest customers. Two of those people said Meta at one point
internally expected annual spending on Anthropic models could reach as high as
$10 billion; if realized, that would be a significant portion of Anthropic’s
revenue. Anthropic projected in July that its annual revenue would exceed $65
billion.
