The Compute Cartel: How Microsoft, Amazon, and Google Control Every Major AI Lab

TLDR: Amazon, Microsoft, and Google invest billions in AI labs, then collect that money back as locked-in cloud revenue. Within 16 days, three megadeals handed Anthropic compute from Amazon, Google, and SpaceX simultaneously. xAI failed to operate independently and was forced to lease its GPU data center directly to rival Anthropic. Regulators in the US, [...]

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