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Meta Transforms into AI Compute Landlord with $10B Anthropic Lease Deal
Meta is in early talks with Anthropic for a $10 billion compute lease deal, marking its strategic shift from internal AI infrastructure user to commercial landlord. This move monetizes Meta's massive capex and creates an inter-cloud leasing model, fundamentally reshaping the AI compute supply chain.
NVIDIA Invests $2B in CoreWeave, Debuts 'Compute Central Bank' Model
NVIDIA invests $2 billion in CoreWeave and launches the AI Compute Partner Program, featuring credit enhancement, revenue sharing, and GPU buyback. This transforms NVIDIA from a hardware vendor into a 'compute central bank', tightening control over the AI cloud leasing ecosystem and squeezing intermediaries.
NVIDIA AI Compute Partnership: Revenue Share and Credit Backstop to Lock Cloud Providers into DSX AI Factories
NVIDIA launches AI Compute Partnership with revenue sharing and credit backstop, shifting from hardware sales to recurring service revenue. Initial projects include 40K GB300 chips for Sharon AI and 170K GPUs for Firmus, totaling 200K+ high-end chips. NVIDIA is becoming the 'central bank' of AI compute, squeezing cloud brokers.
xAI Grok 4.5 Beta: 1.5T Param V9 Base, Cursor Integration Locks Tesla/SpaceX Ecosystem
xAI launches Grok 4.5 with a 1.5T parameter V9 base, integrating Cursor data for internal Beta at SpaceX/Tesla. Performance claims approach Claude Opus, but market share drops to 3.4% and Colossus compute utilization is 11%. This vertical integration aims to create a closed AI supply chain but risks ecosystem lock-in and resource misallocation.