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That’s a reasonable point you’ve made! Anthropic appears to find it challenging to balance higher limits with trustworthiness. It’s clear that gaining more compute power is significant, but harming their reputation could end up costing them more over time.

wait Anthropic got the smaller cluster AND the one with the bad environmental record while xAI keeps the bigger one? kinda changes the whole read when you put those details together

It’s understandable to feel conflicted about this. Possessing cutting-edge technology right in your backyard is something to be proud of, but its environmental impact certainly demands serious consideration. Finding a balance between advancement and accountability is difficult.

Agree it's significant that Anthropic is taking the compute in spite of the super dirty power it's using, but there's no positive way to spin an AI lab that has *any* excess compute to share

That’s an interesting perspective! If there is genuinely strong demand for Grok, it seems unusual that they would choose to rent GPUs to a competitor rather than using Colossus 1 for their own purposes. It’s an unusual decision that prompts uncertainty about their future strategy.

Right.

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Oh so we can be sure that, the moment Elon needs the datacenter back, he will claim that Claude is a woke, harmful AI.

Killing 100,000s of poor kids: good for humanity Acknowledging Elon’s trans children: threat to our future

The Colossus deal is certainly puzzling. The environmental impact of Colossus 1 is concerning, particularly given how rapidly xAI implemented changes, such as retiring older models. I’m curious how this will unfold over the long term, given all the changing alliances and models at play.