Issue #115: Anthropic and OpenAI have a serious problem
The frontier model race is opening up
Apollo
+26
Issue #113: Is Meta Quietly Dropping Out of the Frontier Model Race?
Built to compete. Now for rent.
Together AI
+29
Issue #112: 60 People Are on the Hook for $6.3B of Compute
And the model they plan to train doesn't exist yet.
OpenAI
+12
Issue #110: SpaceX Lists at Record $75B as Apollo Writes $35B for Anthropic Without NVIDIA, & SoftBank's $6B Loan Stalls
The largest IPO in history just priced one of the largest AI compute landlords on earth
Apollo
+10
Issue #109: IREN's GPU Debt Goes Investment-Grade, Helion Triples to $15.5B for AI Fusion Power, & CoreWeave Lights Up First VR200
Cheaper money, faster hardware access, bigger cheques, and a $15.5B bet on fusion: to the (current) winners go the spoils.
Megaport
+18
Issue #108: Anthropic Raises $65B at $965B, Releases Opus 4.8 the Same Day, & Groq Returns as a Neocloud After Licensing to NVIDIA
New funding and a new model. On the same day. Dario spoils us.
OpenAI
+16
Issue #107: Iran Wants to Charge for Subsea Cables, Anthropic's Monthly Colossus Bill, & Data Centre Curtailment
Subsea cables were built as public goods. Four American companies turned them into private infrastructure.
OpenAI
+18
Issue #106: Cerebras IPOs, OpenAI Buys a $4B Consulting Army, & Fermi Burns $189M Without a Tenant
NVIDIA still owns training. This week the market priced the bet against it owning anything else.
OpenAI
+11
Issue #103: SpaceX Options Coding Platform Distilled from Chinese Model the White House Accused China of Stealing for $60B, Anthropic Hits $30B Revenue, & 3 Frontier Models Ship
Distillation is apparently theft when China does it to American models and a $60 billion acquisition target when an American company does it to Chinese ones.
DeepSeek
+12
Issue #102: Shoe Company Pivots to GPUaaS, Microsoft Takes Stargate Norway From OpenAI, & Jane Street Puts $6B Into CoreWeave
OpenAI closes another Stargate. Sustainable footwear provider becomes neocloud. Totally normal week.
OpenAI
+11
Issue #101: OpenAI Cancels the UK, Meta Ships Muse Spark, & CoreWeave Lands A Bigger Meta Contract & Anthropic
$122B raised nine days ago. Four pullbacks in six weeks. A New Yorker profile asking if the CEO can be trusted. The UK press blamed Britain.
Firmus
+10
Issue #100: Anthropic Leaks Claude Code & Mythos, CoreWeave Closes First A3-Rated GPU Debt, & Sharon AI Lands Aussie Decacorn Customer
OpenClaw is now only the second most-starred GitHub repo in history
OpenAI
+9
Issue #99: Nscale's Past Loan Defaults, Musk's $25B Chip Factory He Can Smoke Cigars In, & Meta's Fifth Silicon Partner
The ambition keeps scaling. The due diligence keeps lagging behind.
OpenAI
+11
