02/09/2026
Engineers competed to burn Claude tokens. Meta pays hundreds of millions monthly.
Anthropic builds the models. Meta competes with Anthropic directly.
Staff ranked each other on internal spending leaderboards by April.
Executives modelled a bill reaching $10B a year.
Meta removed the leaderboards once the costs climbed.
The biggest rivals in AI are quietly paying each other.
Read more on TNW: https://thenextweb.com/news/meta-anthropic-10bn-spending-projection
