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Frontier labs are locking up compute to survive the scaling wars
◆ 90RelevanceOn a story from TechCrunch AI5h ago
These massive deals indicate that frontier labs are betting everything on the continued success of scaling laws. For founders, this means your primary model providers are taking on enormous capital risk, making multi-model redundancy a strategic necessity.
Takeaways
- Frontier labs are prioritizing massive compute capacity over short-term profitability.
- Diversify API dependencies to mitigate provider-specific infrastructure risks.
- Expect the capital barrier for new frontier models to remain astronomical.
Read the original at techcrunch.com
Nscale and Anthropic are reportedly in talks for yet another $45B compute deal
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