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  • oyzmo@piefed.socialEnglish
    8·
    5 hours ago

    So, by subscribing to Claude, I actually put money in mr Nazi’s pockets? (yes, musky)

  • artyom@piefed.socialEnglish
    31·
    23 hours ago

    …why is SpaceX dealing in retail compute? I’m so confused. Why do they have so much infrastructure? Why are they renting it?

    • fodor@lemmy.zipEnglish
      13·
      16 hours ago

      It’s all a scam. The reason why is to make money by gaming the system. The AI bubble has no depth.

      • masterspace@lemmy.caEnglish
        21·
        21 hours ago

        This is precisely why. xAI spent a huge amount on compute hardware, then got absorbed into SpaceX.

        SpaceX doesnt have need for that much compute, and there’s certainly not enough Grok demand for it. Meanwhile Anthropic is desperately looking around for anyone to buy compute from.

      • artyom@piefed.socialEnglish
        2·
        20 hours ago

        I heard about that but didn’t realize it happened. Or that they took on the name of SpaceX. Super confusing.

    • XLE@piefed.socialEnglish
      10·
      19 hours ago

      In addition to what @tleb@lemmy.ca said: AI data centers are not being built as rapidly as their marketing would lead you to believe. This is basically a last-ditch effort for Anthropic to say they are “bringing more compute online” without anyone building anything new.

      • pinball_wizard@lemmy.zipEnglish
        1·
        3 hours ago

        I’m beginning to think it’s important for them that the compute power not actually come online, because no one with deep knowledge of LLMs really expects the new compute to make the AI any less stupid.

        Aa long as the compute is still being built, they can keep making huge vague promises of what is coming soon.

    • AwesomeLowlander@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      4·
      22 hours ago

      Offhand guess, aerodynamic simulations and stuff take a lot of processing power, which were probably bought much more cheaply pre-AI

  • ButtermilkBiscuit@feddit.nlEnglish
    18·
    24 hours ago

    Anthropic is paying SpaceX $15 billion per year

    Anthropic is paying SpaceX $1.25 billion per month through May 2029 as part of the massive compute deal the companies signed earlier this month.

    Why it matters: It’s a massive bill but comes as Anthropic’s revenue is taking off and the company is hampered by a lack of compute power.

    • It also is a significant boost to SpaceX, whose annual revenue is only around $18 billion per year.

    Driving the news: Anthropic and SpaceX announced their deal last month, but did not initially provide financial details.

    • SpaceX announced the monthly payments as part of its filing for an initial public offering, released Wednesday. It said the payments would be reduced for May and June as the deal ramps up.
    • Anthropic also announced moments before the filing became public that it was expanding beyond SpaceX’s Colossus 1 facility to Colossus 2 as well.
    • “We’re expanding our partnership with SpaceX, and will be scaling up on (Nvidia) GB200 capacity in Colossus 2 throughout June,” Anthropic co-founder and chief compute officer Tom Brown said on X.

    SpaceX isn’t done leasing out computing either.

    • “We expect to enter into additional similar services contracts,” it said in the filing. "We have sufficient capacity to provide compute for our own AI models, including support of our training and inference demands, and to satisfy the obligations under these agreements. "

    Yes, but: Either Anthropic or SpaceX can exit the deal with 90 days’ notice, per the filing