ELI5: why is google paying so much more for spacex compute than anthropic?
Summary
Anthropic is reportedly paying less per GPU than Google for SpaceX compute, with Google paying $920m for 110k GPUs compared to Anthropic's $1.25b for 220k GPUs plus additional capacity, highlighting a significant cost discrepancy.
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