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Crazy that this could happen.
Anthropic’s outside counsel in Canada late Monday sent banks an updated IPO prospectus and then retracted it, saying some of the details are incorrect.
The "wrong" S1 quickly got leaked to Reuters, which caused a whole mess.
Anthropic is launching its IPO tomorrow.
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Exclusive: Jensen Huang's dealmaking machine ran non-stop the past summer–buying Hugging Face, backstopping a giant OpenAI data center, investing in a range of AI startups and infrastructure firms.
Huang sure kept his team (and reporters😉) very busy. But what's driving this historic spree is a leader who lives in constant anxiety about Nvidia's future.
More unreported details about OpenRouter, Perplexity, Figure and what's on Nvidia's radar next w/ @_pheebini in @theinformation 🎯
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Instinct raised 1b at $10B valuation, @dealbook confirming 2 @theinformation reporting from earlier this month.
Anthropic’s total compute bill has long been a mystery, and became a key focus for IPO investors.
We tried to do the math, which brings us to an estimated $517B+ worth of deals and ~14.8gw+ in agreed capacity since Oct. 25
More details below + comparison w/ OpenAI:
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SCOOP: Coatue is working on a *first-of-its-kind* multi-billion joint-venture with chip startup MatX, which Anthropic discussed buying this year.
The JV aims to finance purchases of memory and logic dies as well as capacity at chip manufacturers.
The goal is to help the startup overcome fierce shortages when big players like Nvidia can just lock in lots of capacity.
Big team effort w/ @_pheebini @steph_palazzolo
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New @thinkymachines $40 billion round with potentially a lot of Nvidia money (again.)
w/ @_pheebini @steph_palazzolo @julia_hornstein
LATE NIGHT SCOOP w/ @rocketalignment @amir: SoftBank is in talks to buy a majority stake in 1X Technologies, an OpenAI-backed humanoid robot developer, in a deal that would value the startup at about $6 billion.
They talked to OpenAI about an acquisition last year but that deal fell apart.
1X tried last fall to raise $1 billion at a $10 billion valuation, but it only raised less than half that target.
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