Amodei Asked Meta's Wang for Compute This Year; Meta Said No
TL;DR
- Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei personally asked Meta's chief AI officer Alexandr Wang earlier this year for additional compute, and Meta declined.
- The ask follows CNBC's July report that Anthropic was in early talks to lease roughly $10 billion of Meta compute over two years.
- WSJ frames the episode as rival AI leaders personally intervening in an industry-wide scramble to secure compute capacity.
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei approached Meta's chief AI officer Alexandr Wang earlier this year to try to source more compute, and Meta declined, the Wall Street Journal reported.
The scoop sits inside a broader WSJ piece that frames the moment as one in which "bitter rivals are forming alliances and executives are having to personally intervene over the scramble for resources to fuel the AI boom." The report does not detail what capacity Amodei sought or why Meta said no.
CNBC reported in July that Anthropic was in preliminary talks to lease roughly $10 billion of compute from Meta over two years, with Anthropic having initiated the proposal. WSJ does not say whether the Amodei-Wang exchange was part of that same track or a separate ask.
This lands amid a dense run of Anthropic coverage in our tracker, which has logged 343 stories on the lab in the past 90 days, including today's note that the White House is mandating immediate incident disclosures from AI companies.
Originally reported by wsj.com
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