One company paid $500,000,000 for AI in one month. More and more companies are realizing that AI might not be worth its sky-high price tag—at least, not without limits. One company reportedly learned that the hard way, after its employees blew through $500 million in spending on artificial intelligence in just one month. An AI consultant told Axios that one of their clients recently spent half a billion dollars in a month on Claude licenses from Anthropic. How did the company rack up such an insanely high bill? Its employees apparently had no limit on how many licenses they could use, leaving them free to splurge on as much Claude as possible. That means expensive AI tools could be deployed for uses that humans could easily and quickly accomplish themselves, like checking the weather, as one CTO told Axios their employees were doing. The cautionary tale quickly went viral on social media, with users marveling at how spending half a billion dollars on AI could even be possible. “5 private jets. 2 superyachts. One whole island. Gone. Vaporized into tokens,” one user reflected. “Rest in peace to whoever had to send that invoice.” Caption from article by Inc.com “AI Dave” is part of a weekly AI series supported by funding from Omidyar Network.
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😂😂😂😂😂. The drinking water is hilarious
Uber wasn’t even tokenmaxxing, they just didn’t set limits.
Finally a great news post.
Fun fact, an AI employee“ cost about $15 an hour now. So it’s officially cheaper to just hire people. Also, nobody wants to call customer service and talk to a robot.
What song is that?
You crushed the looks maxing :)
“Cut back on AI”- why do we even have it then?
Lol ai Dave chugging water 🤣🤣
"Do you want me to lie or do you want to be unhappy" is a line.
Oracle too. We have been asked to limit our usage no. So strange now because we were asked to pump up these numbers just few months back. Stupid times!
This bubble can't burst fast enough.
I don’t know what’s more dystopian, the fact that AI is replacing humans or the fact that humans might actually be the cheaper of the two.
Reasonably, it shouldn't be that expensive, but some companies and stupid advisors and managers somehow glommed onto the idea that maximizing token usage was a good metric.
Hold the executives and managers accountable for bad business practices
Can we get a briefcase review/closeup?
“It’ll make us so much faster” How can you go do things fast when you don’t have the money to do things
Some people live and breathe Donald Trump. Sad.
Claude was drinking more water than Brett Kavanaugh in a Senate confirmation hearing!
Oh yeah definitely no bubble here. 😂
AI daves visor costume has been a better investment than actual AI