Pentagon Seals AI Deal with Eight Major Vendors, but Anthropic Out

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Elon Musk’s AI ambitions are converging on multiple fronts simultaneously. SpaceX is considering spending up to $119 billion on a semiconductor facility in Grimes County, Texas, dubbed “Terafab” — a vertically integrated chip manufacturing complex developed alongside Tesla and Intel. The facility is intended to produce chips for AI servers, satellites, autonomous vehicles, and SpaceX’s proposed orbital […]

The chief executive, Dario Amodei, said the rapid growth had exponentially increased the start-up’s need for more computing power.

The vendor’s new agents could find a home in big Wall Street firms, threaten mid-sized service providers and start to push entry-level finance jobs aside.

Deal follows others with Microsoft, Amazon, and more.

In an unexpected turn, the two companies signed a deal for Anthropic to use computing resources from Elon Musk’s xAI.

AI start-up is racing to add computing power to keep up with its growth

Anthropic announced “dreaming” for AI agents to sort through “memories” at its developer conference. Can we not?