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Elon Musk praises Mythos/Fable, promises not to 'cut off' Anthropic
Should Anthropic trust Elon Musk to host its models? With about $40 billion in revenue at stake, Musk insists that the company can.
TL;DR
- Elon Musk, through his company xAI (merged with SpaceX), is hosting Anthropic's AI models on SpaceX servers.
- Anthropic has a deal to purchase 300 megawatts of compute from xAI's Colossus 1 data center for $1.25 billion per month through May 2029, a total of about $40 billion.
- Musk claims he would not "cut off" Anthropic, citing his past actions with Tesla and SpaceX as evidence of fair competition.
- Despite Musk's assurances, hosting Anthropic's compute could provide SpaceX with insights into the company's operations.
- Anthropic previously accused Chinese model makers of distilling its Claude technology.
- The partnership offers significant financial benefits to SpaceX and potential learning opportunities for its engineers.