Anthropic’s latest flagship AI might not have been incredibly costly to train

Anthropic’s newest flagship AI model, Claude 3.7 Sonnet, cost “a few tens of millions of dollars” to train using less than 10^26 FLOPs of computing power. That’s according to Wharton professor Ethan Mollick, who in an X post on Monday relayed a clarification he’d received from Anthropic’s PR. “I was contacted by Anthropic who told me that Sonnet 3.7 would not be considered a 10^26 FLOP model and cost a few tens of millions of dollars,” he wrote, “though future models will be much bigger.” TechCrunch reached out to Anthropic for confirmation but hadn’t received a response as of publication time. Assuming Claude 3.7 Sonnet indeed cost just “a few tens of millions of dollars” to train, not factoring in related expenses, it’s a sign of how relatively cheap it’s becoming to release state-of-the-art models. Claude 3.5, Sonnet’s predecessor, released in fall 2024, similarly cost a few tens of millions of dollars to train, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei revealed in a recent essay. Those totals ... Read full article.