Comment by svnt
5 hours ago
And receiving investment from their vendor in exchange? When this is done in established companies it is typically called a kickback and directed toward one person, but in this case the whole thing is so incestuous the kickback goes straight to the top.
Is it crazy to imagine Anthropic can leverage short term cash flow now to build the models and products that will let them resell $100B in AWS infra with nice margins tomorrow?
If Amazon believes that story they’d be crazy not to invest.
Yes I understand why the agreement exists, but that does not remove the circularity.