logoalt Hacker News

ashkankiani • yesterday at 7:48 PM • 0 replies • view on HN

Their profit on that was reportedly $559 million. But, this is after you realize that Anthropic got a discount on May/June from their new agreement with xAI's Colossus data center. So their first profit positive quarter happened during the time when their costs were artificially lower than they will be going forward.

Lots of people seem to love to do the simplest extrapolation that benefits their point. It's the same with "AI is improving at rate X, therefore if we linearly extrapolate, we'll hit AGI in a year."