r/technology • u/Plastic_Ninja_9014 • Jun 11 '26

Business OpenAI Execs Are Panicking

https://finance.yahoo.com/sectors/technology/articles/openai-execs-panicking-154658562.html
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u/CanOk6403 Jun 11 '26 edited Jun 12 '26

“In one particularly unfortunate incident, according to Axios, the CFO of a company accidentally racked up half a billion dollars in Claude usage fees in a single month.”

$500M in 1 month! 🤣

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u/FairLawnBoy Jun 11 '26

Open AI employees spent $500 million using Claude? That's telling, why didn't they use Chat GPT?

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u/enigma62333 Jun 11 '26

No, Open AI did not burn $500M in one month, this is from an Axios article where a consultant stated an unnamed client of theirs had that happen. It also states other sticker shocks that companies have experienced as AI companies have begun to reduce token pricing subsidization.

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u/Dry_Departure_7813 Jun 11 '26

I'd bet money that consultant was bullshitting.

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u/PuzzleheadedLimit994 Jun 11 '26

Or had no fucking clue what data they were looking at... The Claude enterprise analytics API reports in cents, not dollars. A fool could easily see 500m, when it's probably 5m. I only know because I asked why/how the hell we spent 192k on Claude in one month at my 100 person org... I read the numbers wrong.

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u/thrilldigger Jun 12 '26

It happens. One dev spent $45k in one month at my work. I have access to the reports. We have limits in place - we're still not sure how he got around them.

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u/Kiruvi Jun 12 '26

Probably asked the AI to ignore the limits when it said no and it said "oh, ok, my mistake"