Yesterday, a half-trillion dollar AI announcement came from Pres. Trump, OpenAI, SoftBank, Oracle, and MGX. Elon Musk’s hot take on X: “They don’t actually have the money.” In response, Satya Nadella told CNBC: “All I know is I’m good for my $80 billion.” You know what they say: “A few billion here, a few billion there, pretty soon you’re talking about real money.” Speaking of billions…
Google quietly dropped another $1 billion on Anthropic, pushing their total stake to $3 billion. Smart move. While Google has faced some challenges productizing their AI (except NotebookLM), Anthropic’s been crushing it; the Claude-maker is pulling $1 billion annually and pioneering computer-control AI systems.
According to sources on the west coast, Anthropic is on the verge of securing an additional $2 billion from venture capitalists that could rocket Anthropic’s valuation to $60 billion. Ex-OpenAI folks (Anthropic’s founders) building a safety-first AI powerhouse? Investors are all-in.
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