Meta reportedly halves Claude users to 30,000 as distillation fears grow

Key Summary

Meta reportedly reduced its use of Anthropic's Claude to 30,000 users from 60,000, amid concerns over model distillation. The restrictions follow a period of heavy internal use, with employees burning through 60.2 trillion tokens in a single 30-day period. This was driven by performance incentives, leading to a projected annual spend of up to $10 billion on Anthropic's models. Meta is instead accelerating work on its own coding assistants, MetaCode and Muse Code, while still investing in Anthropic's tools. The shift is gradual, with fewer changes expected for engineers outside the applied AI group.