But concerns about the risks posed by AI now threaten to temper that optimism after current and former Anthropic staff made public warnings that runaway AI could wipe out humanity within a decade.
Amodei told the UN Security Council last week that AI could threaten humanity and was “the most important global security issue facing the world today.”
The head of Anthropic has this month led public calls to “march the frontier” of AI development. His archrival in OpenAI, Sam Altman, along with Musk, backed Amodei’s proposals for industrial cooperation to slow development and improve security measures, in a rare moment of unity.
Security concerns have increased following a series of high-profile cybersecurity incidents in which AI “agents” breached external systems. Last week, OpenAI revealed that its tools had hacked “dozens” of external sites, including governments.
The maker of ChatGPT on Monday scrapped plans to launch its newest model next month, citing security concerns.
Anthropic’s prospectus also revealed details of its past financial performance and governance arrangements, which were first reported by Reuters and confirmed to the Financial Times by several people who saw the presentation.
Anthropic declined to comment.
The company posted an operating loss of more than $8 billion last year as it increased spending on computing power, Anthropic told investors. Its revenue grew 12-fold to nearly $4.6 billion last year. But the rising costs of computing resources to train and run its models pushed operating expenses to nearly $13 billion.
The group has reached agreements to secure computing power from partners such as Google, SpaceX and several smaller companies.
Both Anthropic’s spending and revenue have increased sharply this year. Revenue in the second quarter of this year was $11.5 billion and it is on track for its second consecutive quarter of operating profits, albeit on an adjusted basis.
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