17 comments

  • aurareturn a day ago

    Makes sense. Elon overestimated Grok usage and compute demands. Anthropic massively underestimated and is likely looking in every corner of the world for compute. SpaceX also wants additional revenue on the books for IPO.

    • lanthissa a day ago

      yeah people have been talking about this for a few weeks. Spacex is the only unallocated nvidia gpu's on earth, anthropic is going through a crisis due to lack of compute.

      It would have been a huge black mark on the record of both if they couldn't manage to put the deal together.

      • nerdsniper a day ago

        > Spacex is the only unallocated nvidia gpu's on earth

        There are reportedly significant additional un-deployed GPU's (which cannot be allocated) sitting in boxes in warehouses at OpenAI who doesn't have facilities or power to deploy them. But that's a separate thing.

        • mudkipdev a day ago

          If an OpenAI employee is reading this, I'll gladly take them off you :)

      • fennecbutt a day ago

        Does anthropic trust spacex enough for this though.

        • naveen99 20 hours ago

          If they trust Claude code, they can trust spacex. Safety trust tm.

        • gbnwl a day ago

          I mean yes? Considering that we're here reading the news that they've agreed to this.

    • gizajob a day ago

      Maybe this is how xAI gets to that outlandish valuation included in the IPO numbers.

    • serf a day ago

      ... well and they want to twist whatever knives they have in oAI -- if they can help the competition with their silly over-spend more the better.

    • dyauspitr a day ago

      Plenty of people paying the grok $300/month fee almost exclusively to generate high quality soft porn videos. I’ve “tested” it myself during a trial period and boy is it good.

      • general1465 a day ago

        So the problem is not enough gooners are willing to pay.

        • brianwawok a day ago

          It’s the venn diagram of gooners and people with $300 of disposable income.

  • naveen99 20 hours ago

    So what’s the terafab for if spacex already has so much unused capacity ?

  • gizmodo59 a day ago

    where are all the claude fans who hate elon? Its very funny how ant will do anything at this point.

  • freedomben a day ago

    See also for the Anthropic blog/announcment on this, which includes higher usage limits for Claude: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48037986

  • ChrisArchitect a day ago

    More discussion on associated Anthropic post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48037986

  • metadat a day ago

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