I’d be interested in hearing someone from Anthropic discuss the upsides or downsides of this arrangement. From an entirely personal standpoint, it seems odd that Anthropic gave up equity AND had restrictions in how the investment could be used. That said, I imagine there are MANY other details about I’m not aware of since I wasn’t involved in the decision.
From an entirely personal standpoint, it seems odd that Anthropic [...] had restrictions in how the investment could be used.
My assumption is (and I’m definitely not sure about this) that restricting funding to compute is not very restrictive at all, given that (a) Anthropic probably does and will spend large sums of money on compute, likely more than this investment covers, and (b) the money they’re currently spending on compute can easily be shifted to other areas now that it’s freed up. (If Anthropic aren’t currently using Google Cloud Platform, I guess it’s more restrictive in that it forces Anthropic to migrate to another cloud service provider.) But yeah, I’d also be curious to hear an insider’s view on this.
I’d be interested in hearing someone from Anthropic discuss the upsides or downsides of this arrangement. From an entirely personal standpoint, it seems odd that Anthropic gave up equity AND had restrictions in how the investment could be used. That said, I imagine there are MANY other details about I’m not aware of since I wasn’t involved in the decision.
My assumption is (and I’m definitely not sure about this) that restricting funding to compute is not very restrictive at all, given that (a) Anthropic probably does and will spend large sums of money on compute, likely more than this investment covers, and (b) the money they’re currently spending on compute can easily be shifted to other areas now that it’s freed up. (If Anthropic aren’t currently using Google Cloud Platform, I guess it’s more restrictive in that it forces Anthropic to migrate to another cloud service provider.) But yeah, I’d also be curious to hear an insider’s view on this.