[Meta Reportedly Planned to Invest $10 Billion Annually in Anthropic, AI Competition Shows 'Co-opetition'] According to The New York Times, Meta internally evaluated earlier this year the possibility of investing up to $10 billion annually in Anthropic's AI models in the future, potentially making it one of Anthropic's largest customers. The report states that while Meta has publicly criticized AI labs like Anthropic for potentially contributing to industry power concentration, it has privately made extensive use of Anthropic's AI products. Insiders revealed that Meta is still paying Anthropic hundreds of millions of dollars monthly to use its AI tools. Sources also noted that Meta previously utilized Anthropic's Claude Code tool to support internal development and used it to test its upcoming AI assistant product, 'Hatch.'