News Summary

• xAI and Anthropic announced a surprise partnership that has the Claude-maker buying out “all of the compute capacity at [xAI’s] Colossus 1 data center,” roughly 300MW.
• xAI was valued at $230 billion in its January funding round; CoreWeave, which oversees a comparable quantity of computing power, is worth less than a third of that.
• By focusing on data centers (earthbound and otherwise), xAI is positioning itself more like a neocloud business.