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Anthropic is paying SpaceX $15 billion per year (www.axios.com)
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[–] AwesomeLowlander@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago) (1 children)

Offhand guess, aerodynamic simulations and stuff take a lot of processing power, which were probably bought much more cheaply pre-AI

[–] artyom@piefed.social 1 points 18 minutes ago (1 children)

They need >$15B worth of compute for aero simulation!?

[–] AwesomeLowlander@sh.itjust.works 1 points 16 minutes ago* (last edited 15 minutes ago)

Ten years ago it was probably 1.5B.

(only partly /s)