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O'Driscoll: xAI Rented Colossus Cluster to Anthropic for $1.25B Monthly
“They've rented that to Entropic for 1.25 billion a month, right, with a, I think, a ninety-day cancellation clause on either side.”
Angelopoulos: Arena has 30M+ monthly visitors, bigger than Hugging Face and xAI
“People don't know this, but Arena's one of the largest consumer AI apps in the world. We're bigger than, like, XAI. We're bigger than, like, Hugging Face, and Manus, and GenSpark, where it's so massive, like if you, like outside in, it's like 30 plus million m…”
Stebbings: SpaceX acquired xAI in a $1.25T combined valuation merger
“Last few hours, or 24 hours, SpaceX has completed the acquisition of XAI, valuing the combined private company at 1.25 trillion, as Elon moves to pair the businesses together.”
Lemkin: OpenAI, Anthropic, and xAI will rush IPOs due to capital pressure
“What all three of those say to me is there's no matter, there's subtle pressure around access to capital. Like they've all got to have an IPO strategy sooner than they'd hoped because Data center, because XAI needs capital, because Anthropic is even worried ab…”
Lemkin: Anthropic cut off xAI's access to its models
“Even little things like Anthropic cutting off XAI's access to Anthropic this week.”
Deeter: Top three LLM companies will raise $100B in six months
“I think the numbers right now, the top three LLMs, if you include you know, Anthropoc, OpenAI, and X in there, ah, are gonna raise a hundred billion dollars in this six month period”
O'Driscoll: xAI will fail to displace ChatGPT's dominant consumer mindshare
“The market's already been taken and maybe it gets some share of it, but I don't think, yeah, I don't think you can build as big a thing. I don't think you can build, I don't think you can displace ChatGPT at scale in the minds of the consumer, which is 80, 90%…”
O'Driscoll: Cursor deal would be the largest private venture acquisition ever
“If this deal closes in three months, This is the biggest ever privately held venture acquisition, period, full stop, end of story.”
Calacanis: xAI lost military deal when Palantir chose Anthropic
“He wasn't even approved at the Department of Defense for this application, right? Only XAI was, and they had lost. They had lost because Palantir picked Anthropic.”
Breakout AI companies achieve massive scale with near-zero customer acquisition costs
“11 Labs has this, ChatGPT has this, XAI has this where it's organic customer acquisition or, you know, very low cost sales acquisition, Abridge, Harvey, companies where, like, the market is just absolutely starving for their product.”
Lemkin: Elon Musk or xAI Will Sue Apple
“He's incensed, and he's got a lot of money in XAI. I mean, he has, he's the richest man in the world, but he doesn't have unlimited capital, so I think it happens.”