alt Hacker NewsDid you read that Anthropic is paying them $15B/year for use of xAI's data centers? That changes things quite a bit
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datadrivenangel • today at 1:25 AM
And SpaceX /xAI spent almost $20 B over the last 3 years on "AI" capex and has AI capex and operations costing $10B combined in Q1 2026...
Spending 40B to make $15B/year is a decent investment actually if you can do it for more than ~3-5 years.
Does xAI have some sort of edge over Anthropic when it comes to buying future compute?
If not, this just seems like grok not being as successful as they would have liked and then finding some other use for the compute they had bought for it while at the same time Anthropic can’t keep up with demand for claude.