• froztbyte
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    The AI start-up is continuing with plans to list before the US Thanksgiving holiday this month, according to multiple investors in the group

    someone seems a bit rushed

    “It’s just one milestone along the way,” said one early Anthropic backer. “They should treat it like every other fundraise: a means to an end.”

    I certainly hope they mean for it to end

    Anthropic released its financial data for the third quarter earlier this week, revealing revenue growth that had slowed but still jumped almost 50 per cent to around $17bn.

    I like how this doesn’t point out that the same data showed their compute costs have doubled

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      means to an end.”

      The end is “get enough money for just one more training run bro” both because they hope to reach recursive self improvement magic AGI God in the next training run and because their entire value proposition is centered around releasing “better” models.