The Billion-Dollar Price Tag of Building AI

Artificial intelligence executives have big plans--and they're not cheap. In a recent interview with TIME, Dario Amodei, CEO of AI company Anthropic predicted that the cost to develop the next generation of AI systems that will be released later this year would be around 1 billion. This trend suggests that the generation after that would cost more like 10 billion. Amodei is not the only one preparing for a spending spree. Microsoft and OpenAI are reportedly planning to build a 100 billion supercomputer to build and run AI models.