Anthropic's Compute Addiction: A Sign of the Times or a Recipe for Disaster? Anthropic has struck a deal worth $45 billion to rent compute capacity from Nscale, a UK based company.
This partnership is part of a broader trend in which AI companies are securing vast amounts of computing power to train and fine tune large scale language models.
At first glance, Anthropic's move might seem like an attempt to keep pace with rival OpenAI. However, the situation is more complex than that.