Bit of a clickbait title there, which the Atlantic has already changed to the more factual "Silicon Valley’s Trillion-Dollar Leap of Faith". It's not difficult

Bit of a clickbait title there, which the Atlantic has already changed to the more factual "Silicon Valley’s Trillion-Dollar Leap of Faith". It's not difficult to imagine profitable uses of AI: deploying an open-source model to respond to customer support emails almost certainly costs less than the yearly salary of a script-reading customer service agent, and while the quality won't be great, what it replaces isn't great either. It is, however, indeed difficult to justify spending $100 million on training a single model like Anthropic apparently wants to.