chief executive Dario Amodei suggested that some
artificial intelligence companies
are taking on
by committing to spend hundreds of billions of dollars, if not more, to develop and support AI systems.
In an interview with the New York Times DealBook Summit on Wednesday, Amodei said
a “real dilemma” from balancing the need to make
costly investments in data centres
– which can take multiple years to set up – with “uncertainty in how quickly the economic value is going to grow” from AI.
“We as a company try to manage as responsibly as we can,” he said. “And then I think there are some players who are YOLO-ing,” he added, using an abbreviation that means “you only live once.” Without naming any firms, Amodei said some companies “pull the risk dial too far.”
In recent months,
, including Meta Platforms Inc., OpenAI and Alphabet Inc.’s Google, have ramped up spending on data centres and chips to build more advanced AI systems and pave the way for broader adoption of the technology. OpenAI alone has committed to spend US$1.4 trillion on AI infrastructure projects, adding to concerns of an AI bubble.
Anthropic has also increased its spending
, though not to the same degree as the ChatGPT maker. Anthropic, for example, recently said it would commit US$50 billion to build its first custom data centres in several United States locations.
Founded in 2021 by former OpenAI staffers, Anthropic has aimed to be a more responsible AI steward than its competitors. The company has largely concentrated on growing its enterprise business rather than focus on consumers. The company raised US$13 billion at a US$183 billion valuation in September.