Raoul Pal Says Claude Is ‘Utterly Unusable,’ Warns Anthropic Needs More Inference ‘Fast’ or It Could Lose Customers

Macro investor Raoul Pal criticized Anthropic’s Claude AI for slow performance, flawed reasoning and restrictive usage limits, warning the company could lose customers unless it rapidly expands computing capacity.

Raoul Pal Slams Claude’s Slow Performance

On Monday, Pal took to X to criticize his recent experience with Claude, saying the AI assistant had become difficult to use.

"Claude appears to be utterly unusable today," Pal said, saying he had "wasted hours" because tasks were taking about 30 minutes to complete.

He also criticized the model’s reasoning and reliability, saying, "His reasoning is flawed and it’s not doing things and it’s missing everything it was supposed to do."

Pal separately described Opus 5 as "a cluster****" and complained about the cost of using Fable 5.

The investor also highlighted usage restrictions, saying that although he considers himself "hardly a heavy user," he exhausts his weekly credits by Monday.

Pal called on Anthropic to address the issue quickly.

"This has to get sorted out," he said.

He added, "They need more inference and fast or they’re gonna lose a lot of customers."

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Amodei Pushes Back on Investor Criticism

Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei also pushed back against investor Gavin Baker‘s criticism of his views on AI regulation and the company’s approach to frontier AI, arguing that carefully designed rules could constrain frontier AI labs without hurting competition or open-weight models.

The dispute followed Baker’s claim that Amodei had suggested Anthropic could eventually become the world’s only private company.

Anthropic employee Sholto Douglas called the claim "completely false," while Baker said his broader concerns centered on Amodei’s public views on AI risks and regulation.

Anthropic Faced AI Competition and Security Criticism

Earlier, Anthropic accused Chinese AI firms including DeepSeek, Moonshot AI and MiniMax of conducting what it called ‘industrial-scale’ distillation campaigns on Claude, involving more than 24,000 accounts and 16 million interactions.

Elon Musk pushed back, accusing Anthropic of having previously stolen training data at scale.

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