Anthropic renting out the data center Elon built for Grok is the kind of plot twist you can't make up.
Excess money and influence makes a lot of things possible. Evil or good, that's a separate discussion.
Higher usage limits for Claude and a compute deal with SpaceX
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Nazi feels like a close enough shorthand for “person who posts white nationalist and antisemitic views, supports authoritarian regimes, and seig heils on stage.”
Oh so like this? https://www.msn.com/en-in/news/world/zohran-mamdani-faces-ma...
Oh so we’re done talking about Elon then?
Re: Higher usage limits for Claude and a compute deal with SpaceX
#393Say what you like about Sam Altman, but given how Anthropic is scrambling to sign capacity deals for compute we can sure say he was right about the capcity build out needed.
Or the bubble he was pumping hasn't popped yet. We won't be able to say how much of this capacity was actually "needed" until 10 years in the future, if ever.
Re: Higher usage limits for Claude and a compute deal with SpaceX
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#395> 300 megawatts of new capacity (over 220,000 NVIDIA GPUs) The scale is just mindboggling here. Are there any blog posts or anything discussing what kind of infrastructure is used for even just the inference side (nevermind the training) for SotA models like Opus? I would have thought it might be secret, but given that you can actually run the models yourself on AWS Bedrock doesn't that give an indication?
All evidence is that the final training runs across thousands to low tens of thousands of GPU, and that a single instance of the resulting model runs (or could run) well within a rack (ie NVL72).
The massive scale is all massively parallel: test-time compute for users, test time compute for RL rollouts (and probably increasingly environments for those rollouts), other synthetic data generation, research experiments, …
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Are you worried about Google too? They're selling compute. Same with Microsoft, and Amazon. As far as I know Anthropic is really the only one that's compute-bound.
Amazon is a compute specialist, their competitive advantage is in the compute business. And conversely they're not really trying to play in the AI business, so it's not at all suspicious that they don't want to use all their compute themselves. I am worried about Google and Microsoft, yes.
Amazon tries to make money at pretty much everything they can. They are investing a LOT in AI even if it's not a consumer-facing chatbot.
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How would a data centre poison the water? They don’t produce any chemicals or do anything.
> Data centers can inadvertently pollute water through chemical runoff from evaporative cooling systems, including biocides, corrosion inhibitors, and heavy metals that accumulate at scale when facilities discharge up to 5 million gallons daily. Source: https://www.datacenterknowledge.com/sustainability/4-strateg...
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Are you worried about Google too? They're selling compute. Same with Microsoft, and Amazon. As far as I know Anthropic is really the only one that's compute-bound.
Google, Microsoft, and Amazon's business model include selling compute - SpaceX, not so much.
Amazon is a bookseller and Google is just a web indexer. GCP didn't even open it's preview until 2008. Not sure why you think a business model is in any way a static thing.
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Re: Higher usage limits for Claude and a compute deal with SpaceX
#400Say what you like about Sam Altman, but given how Anthropic is scrambling to sign capacity deals for compute we can sure say he was right about the capcity build out needed.
Or the bubble he was pumping hasn't popped yet. We won't be able to say how much of this capacity was actually "needed" until 10 years in the future, if ever.
The point is that Anthropic is already a decent way into eating through all that capacity, and it's based on real revenue.