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Anthropic and xAI announced a big partnership this week, with Anthropic buying all the compute capacity at xAI’s Colossus 1
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On the latest episode of TechCrunch’s Equity podcast, Kirsten Korosec, Sean O’Kane, and colleagues discussed what the deal might mean for xAI’s parent company SpaceX, as SpaceX prepares to go public and apparently plans to dissolve xAI as a separate organization.
Key facts
- Anthropic and xAI announced a big partnership this week, with Anthropic buying all the compute capacity at xAI’s Colossus 1 data center in Tennessee
- On the latest episode of TechCrunch’s Equity podcast, Kirsten Korosec, Sean O’Kane, and colleagues discussed what the deal might mean for xAI’s parent company SpaceX, as SpaceX prepares to go public
- Kirsten did her best to offer “a positive view” on the partnership, after all, it’s a new way for xAI to make money
Summary
Anthropic and xAI announced a big partnership this week, with Anthropic buying all the compute capacity at xAI’s Colossus 1 data center in Tennessee. Kirsten did her best to offer “a positive view” on the partnership, after all, it’s a new way for xAI to make money. Then Sean asked: “Why be positive when you can be cynical?” In his view, this seems like “a major heat check before the IPO.” Yes, becoming a neocloud might be “a more believable business in the near term,” but it’s less likely to get outside investors excited in the long term. (And then there’s the environmental lawsuit that xAI is facing over Colossus 1.)