Is xAI a neocloud now? | TechCrunch
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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 will be making its own chips at the Terafab, which will take away some but not all of Nvidia's pricing power.
- Musk's version of a neocloud is more ambitious, as you might expect.
- Some of the data centers might be in space — at least by 2035, if things go according to plan.
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