Microsoft, Nvidia Commit Up To $15 Billion Investment in Anthropic as Claude Scales on Azure

Microsoft, Nvidia and OpenAI-rival Anthropic announced strategic partnerships today that will scale Claude on Microsoft Azure and bring up to $15 billion in new investment to the AI startup. Anthropic committed to purchase $30 billion of Azure compute capacity and contract additional capacity up to one gigawatt. Nvidia and Microsoft -- the largest investor in OpenAI -- committed to invest up to $10 billion and up to $5 billion respectively in Anthropic.

The Money-Go-Round

[Spinlock_1977]

'Round and 'round,
The cash money goes,
Where it stops,
Nobody knows.
When it blows up,
Investors will cry.
And AGI dreams,
Will finally die.

Six-fingered investments

[greytree]

Company committing computing resources to another company in return for them committing money they won't have for those computing resources that they will never use.

Like six fingers in generated images, this is another dumb mistake that AI keeps making that normal people never would.

Re: Six-fingered investments

[paul_engr]

This is not banking. It's made up funny money. Ok, that sounds a lot like banking, but it isn't

"up to" NT

[paul_engr]

Farcical thinking

What's the Difference?

[dohzer]

Investment vs Bailout