Anthropic Pays xAI $1.25B for Compute, Cohere Drops 218B Command A+ Open-Source
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⚡ Giants burn compute, OSS LLMs surge, Altman rains YC cash, Stability sings longer, even Rust indexes race—AI never sleeps!
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🤖 Anthropic pays xAI $1.25B/mo for compute, deal runs to 2029
SEC S-1: Anthropic inks $1.25B/mo compute pact with xAI through May 2029. The long lock-in secures scarce GPUs/TPUs for Claude’s roadmap and pre-fixes its largest cost line.
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🤖 Cohere open-sources 218B Command A+, 4-bit quantized & multimodal
Cohere drops 218B Command A+ on Hugging Face: 4-bit lossless, native citations, multimodal, Apache 2.0. Devs get top-tier LLM free; firms ditch fat license fees and ship GPT-class apps today.
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🤖 xAI trained Grok on staff W-2s, promised $420 but stiffed them 2 mo
xAI paid dozens of staff $420 each to upload tax filings for Grok training; two months later most still unpaid. The lapse spotlights opaque data-sourcing and payout practices, eroding trust in future crowdsourced data and talent recruitment.
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