Tom Brown used GOP ties to broker a $1.25B/month SpaceX compute deal

netfortius

There is no coming back from all this, is it?

bix6

https://archive.ph/X2W6e

dtf

"He offered to mop the floors at OpenAI to get his foot in the door." The American dream is alive and kicking.

stillpointlab

My most cynical take: keeping the feel-good image of Anthropic is a temporary ploy to keep fickle SV tech workers building the technology. When OpenAI started to move obviously towards commercial and governmental ties, a lot of people left. Those people were necessary to build the tech. Many landed at Anthropic, a company that still attracts the most ideologically strict and capable ML researchers. But at some point of their choosing, the powers that be will just take it.