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root-parentyesterday at 4:44 PM1 replyview on HN

    Google funds Anthropic
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 Anthropic promises to rent Google's TPUs
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 Google guarantees the infrastructure
 needed to fulfil Anthropic's promise
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 Wall Street lends against Google's guarantee
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 Borrowed money buys Google-designed TPUs
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 The TPU purchases "prove" demand for Google TPUs
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 Anthropic's compute capacity and valuation rise
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 Google's investment in Anthropic rises in value
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 Higher valuations justify still more financing
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                                           DO IT AGAIN

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tristanjyesterday at 5:31 PM

Anthropic has 80%+ margins on inference.

Google has 30%+ margins on compute.

Both parties have discovered a literal money printer. The payback period is <2 years.

At those unit economics, anyone not borrowing aggressively here to create more money printers is a moron.

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