In recent weeks, major artificial intelligence companies have issued persistent warnings about the risks surrounding the technology and the need to slow down model development and improve governance. Leading these calls is the American company Anthropic , through its CEO Dario Amode. However, despite these warnings, Anthropic is proceeding with its plans to launch an IPO with a valuation of up to $2 trillion.
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Anthropic's assessment is based on more than one aspect. The first relates to the profits the company is making, as it is expected to exceed the $100 billion mark in profits by the end of this year, and the second is the expenses of developing artificial intelligence.
The investment in developing artificial intelligence is one of the biggest reasons why US companies working in this field are valued at trillions of dollars. Besides Anthropic, OpenAI is expected to reach a valuation of $1.4 trillion in its initial public offering, according to a separate report from Bloomberg.
In terms of spending, Anthropic expects $518 billion to be spent over the next decade on cloud computing, according to a separate report from Reuters, while OpenAI forecasts spending around $860 billion by 2030.
The scale of this spending raises a key question about the fate of this money and where it goes.
Companies respond to their investors
Anthropic and OpenAI are still private sector companies, which means they are not obligated to disclose their spending in the artificial intelligence sector and its aspects in general, but this does not apply to other major companies in the same sector such as Microsoft , Amazon and Google .
Therefore, these companies present their various spending patterns in financial calls to their investors, and provide a general idea of the spending patterns for the rest of the companies in the sector, even if the actual value of the spending differs.
Anat Ashkenazi, chief financial officer of Alphabet, which owns Google and its artificial intelligence, explained in the company's second-quarter 2026 earnings call its spending on artificial intelligence, with projections for that spending reaching $190 billion for 2026.
Ashkenazi divided the company's spending on artificial intelligence infrastructure into 60% for servers and 40% for data center buildings and network equipment, according to the call documents published on the American website "Stock Analysis".
It should be noted that Microsoft will need to respend this amount in the future if it seeks to upgrade its data centers by purchasing new processors and chips to meet the growing artificial intelligence needs for computing resources, as well as the rising prices of components as a result of the memory and processor crisis.
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