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"Anthropic told investors on Wednesday distillation accounted for 5 per cent to 7 per cent of revenue" If true, and Q2 revenue was $11.5B, then that's more than half a billion dollars spent by other labs to distill Anthropic's models! www.ft.com/content/1163...

fry69

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> more than half a billion dollars spent by other labs to distill Anthropic's models! I have a hard time to believe that stolen data is that much worth, esp. if those 10s or 100s of millions then do not get spent on actual training, and this data may expire quickly. It is just too much IMHO.

15/10/26, 2:36 pm0 reposts0 likes

fry69

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We are talking about real money transfers, where e.g. Chinese companies transferred 10s or 100s of millions to Anthropic, right?

Simon Willison

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Not just Chinese companies - Elon admitted to distillation for XAI in court back in April www.nytimes.com/live/2026/04...

Patrick Socha

@psocha.co.uk

They’re not paying, that’s for sure. Create a fake account, use it, burn it, repeat.

fry69

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This would contradict the message from Anthropic that these are part of their revenue. If they are not paying, there is no revenue.