[kingstnap]

The details are secret. It very well could be wasted GPU time but Anthropic could have made a killer offering as well.

I'm just speculating, but a particularly killer offering Elon wouldnt be able to refuse would be if Anthropic agreed to give them some training data / technology.

[swalsh]

Billions in revenue just before your IPO isn't a bad deal either.

[fancyfredbot]

The icing on the cake for Elon is that it strengthens the competition to OpenAI.

Or is that actually his main motivation. Hard to know. Either way it's a win win win for him.

[throwa356262]

That's certainly one way one could spin this.

I guess loosing a ton of money then trying to get some if it back makes you a genius...

[scottyah]

Yeah real geniuses go down with the ship and never change what they set out to do

[fancyfredbot]

Elon has many many faults but "loosing" money doesn't appear to be one of them. He's literally the richest person alive!