They’ve bought up all the RAM and GPUs…

Is there an endgame where even this is considered overly complex? Instead of starving the competition by buying up all the compute, why not just buy up… all the money!? Hoover up as much investment capital as possible so that your competitors can’t get funding.

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airstrike 14 hours ago | parent | next [-]

I assume this is an honest question, in which case the answer is funding is not really finite.

	▲	ethbr1 6 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Funding can be illiquid for limited spans of time: i.e. pre-IPO. Anthropic / OpenAI / SpaceX going public makes it easier for capital to both flow to and away from them.

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hedora 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

They did get a bunch of investment grants from Trump, so your tax money (and power bills) are subsidizing them. They also arranged for ETFs to eliminate consumer protection rules to force everyone’s retirement to buy SpaceX/Anthropic/OpenAI shortly after IPO. That totals $3T in valuation (unless it goes up in first week trading), so your retirement is basically going to be weighing “AI bubble” similar to “MAGA”, and then everything else is rounding error. (The rule changes waive profitability requirements, and shorten the cooldown from IPO to indexing from a year to weeks).

I guess that’s one way to try to make capital finite.

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tonyhart7 14 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

or just "buy" your competition like big tech did

every major tech company literally have deal,ownership,alliance etc

they literally not gonna gobble up entirely to trigger anti-trust case