Anthropic paid $2.4B to data vendors this quarter — just 6% of its compute spend
himanshustwts · x · 2026-11-03
Anthropic reportedly spent $2.4B on data vendors this quarter, which amounts to only about 6% of its compute spending — a striking illustration of how compute costs dominate over data procurement in frontier training budgets.
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