Given they made a geopolitical accusations and dozens of mainstream publications repeated the "thousands of requests per second", this seems like a grossly negligent flub that should not be dismissed as a mere typo.
I frequently, alone, do 1000s of requests over a period of time, especially ones that are mostly cache hits, which can be $10-$50 in API costs.
To increase the quality of productive discussion, have you considered posting new information on the previous threads, instead of dropping a drive-by [dupe] comment and leaving?
At the time of writing this comment, nobody has noticed or discussed Anthropic's correction to the PR puff piece on the original submission.
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blazespin•1h ago
I frequently, alone, do 1000s of requests over a period of time, especially ones that are mostly cache hits, which can be $10-$50 in API costs.
This was not a "large scale" attack by any means.