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Amodei: In a couple years, AI will be the world's biggest industry
“I actually think that, you know, as the revenues, as the economic business of AI ramps up and it's ramping up exponentially, you know, if I'm right in a couple years, it'll be the biggest source of revenue in the world, right? It'll be the biggest industry in …”
Amodei: AI progress remains exponential with no diminishing returns
“So we see the progress as being very fast, and the exponential is continuing, and we don't see any diminishing returns.”
Amodei: Anthropic hit $4.5B revenue, history's fastest-growing software company
“Anthropic is actually the fastest growing software company in history at the scale that it's at. So we grew from zero to a hundred million in 2023, a hundred million to a billion in 2024, and this year we've grown from one billion to, I think I said this befor…”
Amodei: Accusations That Anthropic Seeks an AI Monopoly Are 'Bad Faith'
“I've said nothing that, that any, that anywhere near resembles the idea that this company should be the only one to build the technology. I don't know how anyone could ever derive that from anything that I've said. It's just, yeah, yeah, it's just a, it's just…”
Amodei: 20-25% chance AI model progress halts within two years
“You know, I think there's maybe I don't know, 20 or 25% chance that sometime in the next two years, the models just start getting, stop getting better for reasons we don't understand, or maybe reasons we do understand, like, you know, data or compute availabil…”
Amodei: AI context windows can reach 100 million words today
“And from a, from an, from a machine learning perspective, from an AI perspective, there's no reason we can't make the context length a hundred million words today, right? Which is roughly what a human hears in their lifetime.”
Amodei: Continual learning will be solved by scaling and new methods
“Without being too specific you know, I think, and we already have maybe some, you know, some evidence to suggest that this is another of those problems that is, is not as difficult as it seems. That will fall to scale Plus a slightly different way of thinking …”
Amodei: Enterprise AI use will surpass consumer AI use
“Our view is that if anything, the enterprise use of AI is going to be greater even than the consumer use of AI, right?”
Amodei: Inference Unit Economics for AI Models Is Already Fairly Profitable
“There's the cost of running, there's the cost of running the model, right? So, so for every dollar the model makes, it costs a certain amount. That is actually already fairly profitable.”
Amodei: GPT-2 and GPT-3 were built to test RLHF at scale
“Actually, the original reason for building GPT-II and GPT-III, it was an outgrowth of the kind of AI alignment work that we were doing, right? Where myself and Paul Cristiano and some of the Anthropic co-founders had invented this technique called RL from huma…”
Amodei: AI lag on subjective tasks is a temporary obstacle
“We've seen more progress on say math and code where, where the models are, you know, getting pretty close to like a high professional Level and less on more subjective tasks. But I think that is very much a temporary obstacle.”
Amodei: Majority of Anthropic code is written with Claude
“I think the actual majority of code that's written, written at Anthropic is, you know, at this point written by, or at least with the involvement of one, you know, one of the quad models”
Amodei: Anthropic's data center scale rivals any AI competitor
“And I would also say, if you look at the size of the data centers that we're building with, for example, Amazon I don't think our data center scaling is substantially smaller than that of any of the other companies in the space.”
Amodei: 2027 Frontier AI Models Will Cost Similar but Be Far More Autonomous
“Two years from now, my guess is that we'll have models that cost of the same order of magnitude that they cost today, except they'll be much more capable of doing work, much more autonomously, much more broadly than they are capable of today.”