Anthropic to Outpace OpenAI in Server Efficiency, Internal Projections Show

As OpenAI and Anthropic seek to make similar breakthroughs in artificial intelligence, their financial paths may be headed in different directions.

Both companies produced financial projections a few months ago that show a divergence in how much they plan to spend on computational resources, which make up the vast majority of their costs. While OpenAI projected spending about $235 billion on costs to train and run its AI models this year through 2028, Anthropic planned to spend less than a third of that amount in its optimistic forecast, slowing down its spending growth in the coming years, previously undisclosed figures show.

The gap is striking given that both companies project similar revenue growth.