I see this as a huge warning sign. If a frontier ai lab is in this position of renting their own capacity, imagine how much overcapacity there is in the system.

Outside of VC money, and circular financing, the only external money coming into ai are into open-ai, and anthropic via their subscriptions and APIs.

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runako 2 hours ago | parent [-]

> a frontier ai lab

Wait, do people consider xAI a frontier AI lab?

	▲	londons_explore an hour ago \| parent [-]
		They were briefly SOTA on some benchmarks, although there were suggestions there might have been some massaging of the results since real world usage showed lackluster performance compared to the benchmarks.