Plot twist but makes perfect sense for both companies.

Anthropic gets the compute they so desperately need to keep growing. Elon rents out compute that xAI couldn't make use of due to little demand for Grok. SpaceX gets revenue on the books for IPO.

PS. I want to translate this part:

  We’re very intentional about where we’ll add capacity—partnering with democratic countries whose legal and regulatory frameworks support investments of this scale

To real speak:

  We're putting profits above anything else. Yes, Elon is a far right guy who supported Trump, a president who isn't very democratic, but we're just really desperate for more money. We're also trying to make you forget that xAI is funded by Middle East non-democratic governments. Heck, we'll even buy compute from China if we can sell Anthropic models there.

▲ VortexLain 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

>we'll even buy compute from China if we can sell Anthropic models there.

Considering that Anthropic mass-bans Chinese users accounts based on using VPN (used to circumvent the Chinese firewall) and then demands an ID or a residence permit of a country where Claude officially works to ensure that the user doesn't live in China, seems unlikely.

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aurareturn 2 hours ago | parent [-]

If the Chinese government tells Anthropic they can freely sell Claude in China, Dario is suddenly going to be kissing China's ass instead of saying how we can't let China win the AGI race for democracy and western values.

	▲	BrianGragg 17 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		After they told the US government no on a very large contract. I find that hard to believe.

▲ 2ndorderthought 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Don't forget the whole, "maybe this will make it easier for xAi to distill anthropic models and we can make another attempt at mechahitler"

▲ foobar_______ 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Thank you for the "real speak" section. Accurate and hilarious.

▲ toephu2 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

> funded by Middle East non-democratic governments

What's the problem here exactly? Are you insinuating any non-democratic government is bad and evil and only democratic governments are the correct and right way to govern? sort of like: "there is only one true prophet, and it's the one I follow, and all the others are false!"

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aurareturn 2 hours ago | parent [-]

No, I didn't say that.

My point is that Anthropic cares a lot about "democracy" but will buy compute from a data center mostly funded by non-democratic nations.

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trollbridge an hour ago | parent [-]

Who do you think is the sources of funding for Anthropic's lead investors?

	▲	aurareturn an hour ago \| parent [-]
		Your tone suggests I'm unaware of the fact that Middle East money heavily invests in American AI companies and data centers.