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$500 Million a Month in AI Tokens for Anthropic Claude - Tokenmaxxing Killing Companies

2026-06-02 Science & Technology
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Top Comments (10)

@MattRodriguez-h7j 2026-06-02

The company is microsoft. Our team got notices to stop using Claude.

64 6 replies
@litojonny 2026-06-02

If I had an employer forcing me to the Ai, I would try to make the bill as high as possible

116 16 replies
@kirk-clawson 2026-06-02

The part of that story that flabbergasted me the most was: "...with human workers turning to automating dreary and mundane tasks they don't like doing, rather than valuable or meaningful work." Like, no duh? Of *course* they're going to automate the boring stuff? That's the whole fricken point of automation??

47 1 replies
@rossrenolds587 2026-06-02

New frontiers in malicious compliance.

22 1 replies
@justinmagagani8835 2026-06-02

That's why they are going public. The revenue they made from tokenmaxings will make their filings beautiful, for this quarter only😂

27 1 replies
@dvdragon 2026-06-02

Token Maxx or Die Trying.😂

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@penrosecat 2026-06-02

it was amazon. due to this, anthropic's ARR blew up which in turn raised the value of amazon's stake in anthropic. so they earned billions by spending millions.

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@giusepperana6354 2026-06-02

Now riddle me this. For those 500 million dollars, what is the actual value in dollars that the AI generated for the company? And how much would it have cost in regular old programmers' salaries to generate the same value?

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@guytrudel613 2026-06-02

Is Anthropic booking $ 6 billion ARR for that customer?

31 5 replies
@z0mbi3pirat3 2026-06-02

If employees using the tech costs a fortune then how are "AI" products going to make money when they have agents inside of agents burning tons of compute? Whole industry is a scam.

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