Simon Willison Highlights Anthropic’s IPO Roadshow Video on Compute

What happened

Simon Willison shares excerpts from Anthropic’s IPO roadshow video, focusing on co-founder Tom Brown’s explanation of the company’s compute approach. Brown says Anthropic trains and serves Claude across AWS Trainium, Google TPUs, NVIDIA GPUs, and AMD GPUs, and says Mythos got Claude running on AMD in three days with almost no human intervention. He also describes compute multipliers as a way to increase effective compute.

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The story so far

Anthropic says its Mythos model helped get Claude’s prompt processing running on AMD MI355X GPUs in three days, with almost no human intervention. The company’s investor presentation compares that with six to twelve months for traditional engineering approaches; the figures have not been independently verified. Anthropic co-founder Tom Brown says the company trains and serves Claude across AWS Trainium, Google TPUs, Nvidia GPUs, and AMD GPUs.