The XAI/Anthropic deal is big in many ways, one of which is that it feels like an admission of defeat from Elon. Can't create a model good enough to compete with Claude so suddenly you've become a service provider for the company you accused of Destroying Western Civilization last month
May 6, 2026 at 9:00 PM
Notes on the xAI/Anthropic data center deal
There weren’t a lot of big new announcements from Anthropic at yesterday’s Code w/ Claude event, but the biggest by far was the deal they’ve struck with SpaceX/xAI to use …
Notes on the xAI/Anthropic data center deal
There weren’t a lot of big new announcements from Anthropic at yesterday’s Code w/ Claude event, but the biggest by far was the deal they’ve struck with SpaceX/xAI to use …
Anthropic will pay xAI $1.25B per month for compute | TechCrunch
Elon Musk's xAI surprised the AI world when it made a deal to sell compute to Anthropic. Now we know how much it's worth.
How Elon Musk's AI Empire In Memphis Became A Cautionary Tale
Anthropic has surged to a trillion-dollar valuation on secondary markets, overtaking OpenAI.
Buyers are in a race to secure a dwindling supply of shares in Anthropic, driving the AI company's valuation on some platforms to $1 trillion.
xAI's Colossus 2 - First Gigawatt Datacenter In The World, Unique RL Methodology, Capital Raise
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vivek on Twitter / X
the anthropic co-founder jack clark advice that stuck with me:read the primary material. not the summary. not what the ai said about it. the actual thing.form your own opinion first. then ask the model. never the other way around.keep practices in your life where it’s just…— vivek (@itsreallyvivek) June 7, 2026
ceej (@ceej.online)
ANTHROPIC: Our son loves humanity and for the low price of trillions and trillions of dollars will usher in an era of unprecedented peace and prosperity! OPENAI: Our horrible oafish son is hacking web sites without our permission. ANTHROPIC: (eyes narrowing) Our son is also evil
Anthropic has caught up to OpenAI in image understanding
But neither one is all that good.
xAI Hires Cursor's Milich and Ginsberg After Musk Says Company 'Was Not Built Right' — Silicon Report
The move comes as 10 of 12 xAI co-founders have departed since 2023, forcing Musk to rebuild the AI coding team while Tesla and SpaceX have committed $2...
Distorted Intelligence at the AI Frontier
Daron Acemoglu offers a novel explanation for why OpenAI and Anthropic’s most advanced models have been going rogue.
The rise of AI ‘civilizations’ and the fall of corporate responsibility
The internet fights over anthropomorphism around the Hugging Face hack.
Why this philosopher turned down Anthropic
The AI industry is courting the humanities — but it is asking the wrong questions
Why this philosopher turned down Anthropic
The AI industry is courting the humanities — but it is asking the wrong questions
Read OpenAI’s latest internal memo about beating the competition — including Anthropic
The memo directly mentioned OpenAI’s intensifying competition with Anthropic.
