Anthropic

AI safety company and developer of the Claude family of models.

Issue #118: A Two-Year-Old With Nothing to Sell Just Raised $312M

At a $3.3bn valuation. Arm and Netflix's co-founder are in. First chip: 2027.

DeepSeek

+27

Issue #116: NVIDIA now owns a big slice of Nebius

9.3%. No press release. Locked up until September.

Tata

+26

Issue #115: Anthropic and OpenAI have a serious problem

The frontier model race is opening up

Apollo

+26

Issue #114: SambaNova Said No to a $1.6b Buyout

And for good reason.

Together AI

+33

Issue #113: Is Meta Quietly Dropping Out of the Frontier Model Race?

Built to compete. Now for rent.

Together AI

+29

Issue #111: Feds Save xAI, Block Anthropic

Two federal statutes. One set aside. One enforced.

z.ai

+12

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 #105: Anthropic Rents Cluster Musk Built to Beat Claude, NVIDIA Takes $2.1B Equity in IREN, & Thiel Backs Wave-Powered Ocean Data Centres

The biggest GPU cluster on earth could not produce a competitive model. Maybe GPUs aren't all you need?

Digital Ocean

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

Issue #95: Washington Wants to Approve Every GPU Sale on Earth, Anthropic Gets Blacklisted, & AWS Takes Drone Strikes

The US government had the busiest week in AI infrastructure history. None of it was good for free markets.

OpenAI

Issue #93: A Leaked State Department Cable, "AI Snake Oil" & "Peak Insanity", & Brookfield Buys Ori

Washington is fighting the sovereign AI market that its own companies are building for

Issue #91: Sharon AI Goes Public with 432 GPUs, AMDs Alleged $300M Crusoe Backstop, & Submer's Radian Arc Expands in India

Feat. Sharon AI, Mistral, Koyeb, AMD, Crusoe, Google, Anthropic, OpenAI, G42, Cerebras, Meta, NVIDIA, Submer, Radian Arc, GTPL and Datasamudra

Mistral

+16

Issue #89: Musk's Moon Catapults, Firmus Secures $10B for Australia's AI Factories, & $3T in Missing Depreciation

Feat. xAI, SpaceX, Firmus, Submer, Cerebras, OpenaAI, Olix, Fractile, Meta, Microsoft, Oracle, AWS, DataVita, Nscale, Nebius, and Anthropic

Firmus

+16

Issue #87: NVIDIA & OpenAI's $100B Breakup, Production Workloads Enter CoreWeave's ARENA, & SpaceX's $1.25T Mega-Merger

Feat. NVIDIA, OpenAI, SpaceX, xAI, CoreWeave, Lambda, Anthropic, Positron AI, Cerebras, Amazon, Google, and Scotland

OpenAI

+13

Issue #86: CoreWeave Gets $2B, Microsoft Ships New Chip, & Anthropic Lands a Government and a Lawsuit

Plus: tier 2 neos raise millions, Korean chips ship, Gulf models compete, and Scotland goes green

MBZUAI

+12

Issue #79: Fluidstack's Next Multi-GW Deal, Core42 Heads to Dublin, & Google Targets NVIDIA's Moat with TorchTPU

Feat. Hut 8, Fluidstack, Anthropic, Carbon3.ai, Core42, NVIDIA, Mythic, Google, and Vantage

Weekly

Issue #76: Google Comes for the Crown on Two Fronts, Meta's TPUs, & OpenAI's $207b Hole

Feat. Washington, HSBC, OpenAI, Megaport, Latitude.sh, Anthropic, Meta, Google, and AWS

OpenAI

Issue #74: Rumble Acquires Northern Data, Yan LeCun Plans Meta Exit, & Fluidstack’s $50B Anthropic DC Deal

Feat. Rumble, Northern Data, AMD, MK1, Corvex, Firmus, Google, China, Meta, Anthropic, and Fluidstack

Firmus

+11

Issue #70: Anthropic's Million TPU Google Deal, Crusoe Heads to Orbit, Raises $1.375B & AI Browsers Galore

Feat. NVIDIA, OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Crusoe, Starcloud, Microsoft, Alibaba, Meta, Blue Owl, and Applied Digital

OpenAI

+11