Anthropic’s Success Sparks Server Crunch

Anthropic has gained more than a few new fans in recent months (unless you’re Under Secretary of Defense Emil Michael). Thanks to the strength of its automated coding tools, Anthropic more than doubled its annualized sales to $19 billion during the first two months this year. And it’s closing the revenue gap with larger rival OpenAI.

But as the Notorious B.I.G. might have predicted, Anthropic’s success is bringing new problems. The more users and revenue the company attracts, the more reliability issues it sees: its products’ uptime, or how reliably Claude works for customers, has slipped as its server capacity fails to keep pace with demand, for instance.

And Anthropic, in an unpublished blog post that it accidentally made public, said that Claude Mythos, its next flagship model, is “a large, compute-intensive model” that is “very expensive…to serve, and will be very expensive for…customers to use.” In fact, Claude Mythos is so expensive to serve that the company said it'll have to make it “much more efficient before any general release.”