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Reflection gets access to SpaceX's Colossus 2 data center near Memphis at $150M/month starting July 1, with immediate Nvidia GB300 access and a 90-day exit after the first three months. (CNBC) Reflection, last valued at $25B and building American open-source frontier models, joins Anthropic, Google, and Cursor as Colossus tenants. The strategically loud part: an open-source lab rents frontier-scale compute exactly as enterprises reassess closed-model dependence. This is the supply side of the GLM-5.2 story. Open weights need someone willing to spend $6.3B on GPUs, and that someone is increasingly showing up.
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This is a supply-chain fact, and most people are still treating it as a geopolitics argument. Sequoia published "America's Open-Model Paradox" on July 24 with the number that reframes the whole conversation: Qwen's share of open-model fine-tunes went from 1% in January 2024 to...
SpaceX's S-1 surfaced that rival Anthropic rents 300MW (~220,000 GPUs) of xAI's Colossus 1 capacity near Memphis for $1.25B a month through May 2029, a contract that could exceed $40B, terminable on 90 days' notice. xAI posted a ~$2.4B Q1 loss against $7.7B capex. Competitors...
Five months ago, Anthropic was running at $9B annualized. Today it's $30B. CNBC named them #1 on the 2026 Disruptor 50, above OpenAI for the first time. The numbers from Daniela Amodei's interview are hard to process. $1B run rate in December 2024. $9B end of 2025. $14B Februa...
This one hit my inbox and I had to read it twice. Anthropic announced a partnership with SpaceXAI for the entire Colossus 1 data center in Memphis. 220,000 NVIDIA GPUs. 300+ megawatts. That's the largest single compute acquisition by any AI lab. Full stop. But the part that ma...
Two announcements from Anthropic yesterday, and they're connected in a way that matters. First, the immediate impact: Claude Code rate limits doubled across Pro, Max, Team, and Enterprise. Peak-hours throttling removed for Pro and Max. Opus API rate limits got a 1500% input to...
The commitment with teeth is one sentence in step 1: embedded third-party evaluators with "employee-like access" to Anthropic's training pipelines. Not model access. Not a pre-release window. Desks in Anthropic's offices, access badges, company laptops, permissions mostly comp...
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