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Daniela Amodei has entered the tokenmaxxing discourse in Silicon Valley \u2014 and no, Anthropic does not have an AI leaderboard.<\/p>\n

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At Thursday’s Bloomberg Tech conference in San Francisco, the Anthropic president and co-founder took a question about tokenmaxxing, where developers use as much AI as possible and rack up huge bills with unclear business payoffs.<\/p>\n

Amodei was diplomatic, but offered a bullish vision.<\/p>\n

She said that though AI models have dramatically improved over the last two years, this isn’t the end state of their progress.<\/p>\n

“I actually think there’s a lot more distance to go still for what the models will be able to do two to four, six to eight years in the future,” Amodei said.<\/p>\n

The executive also said businesses will find new ways to use the tools, and learn together as a larger community.<\/p>\n

She acknowledged that workers are reckoning with a new paradigm, where they’re directed to use AI and sometimes even tracked by their employers.<\/p>\n

“Today there’s this feeling that’s like, ‘Oh, like AI, you know, the leaderboards, and it’s like I have to use it, and what am I going to use it for?'” Amodei said. “My hope is that over time it’ll be more incorporated into the day-to-day of how humans do our work, how we communicate together, and that there will actually be a lot more value realized in a way that feels really good to people.”<\/p>\n

Anthropic does not have a token-usage leaderboard, she noted, though the company does track general use of the company’s Claude products as teams work.<\/p>\n

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“But there’s not like, ‘You must use AI and you must use Claude’,” she added.<\/p>\n

Claude Code, Anthropic’s juggernaut AI-coding product, is one of the main drivers of the tokenmaxxing discourse.<\/p>\n

The tool uses significantly more tokens \u2014 the units of AI input and output \u2014 than a classic chatbot interface. That gap grew more substantial with the advent of agents, which a user can direct to autonomously churn through tasks. Anthropic and OpenAI partly charge on a per-token basis, so the boom in AI coding has fueled a surge in revenue.<\/p>\n

Companies are navigating how to spend on AI, after some executives at top companies encouraged a freewheeling attitude. Amazon recently shut down an informal, employee-made leaderboard that tracked the use of AI tokens.<\/p>\n

“Please don’t use AI just for the sake of using AI,” Dave Treadwell, an Amazon senior vice president, told staff.<\/p>\n

A similar leaderboard at Meta was taken down by the employee who made it, The Information reported. It had been titled “Claudeonomics.”<\/p>\n

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