Anthropic will pay xAI $1.25B per month for compute

# Anthropic is paying Elon Musk's AI company $1.25 billion every month for computing power Anthropic, a major artificial intelligence company, has struck a deal to buy massive amounts of computing power from xAI, which is owned by Elon Musk. This kind of partnership shows how expensive it is to build and run AI systems—companies need enormous amounts of computing resources, and some are now buying them from other tech companies rather than building everything themselves.