Amazon is among those in the pack of Big Tech companies spending staggering sums on developing AI and deploying it to drive automation within the company.
In some cases, the bills are larger than Amazon employees had anticipated
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What to do before the window closes In one instance, employees were briefed on one episode in which Amazon spent $1.8 million to align author details with listings on their shopping website. Anthropic’s Claude Sonnet AI was used to execute the task but it flopped, the FT reported. The $1.8 million sum amounted to an 860% cost overrun and took the company five months to detect it, per the FT.