Tom Brown Used GOP Ties to Broker a $1.25B/Month SpaceX Compute Deal
A Wall Street Journal report says Tom Brown leveraged Republican political connections to arrange a SpaceX compute deal worth $1.25 billion per month. The story, discussed on Hacker News, raises questions about how political access shapes access to AI infrastructure and the scale of spending now flowing into compute.
Tom Brown used GOP ties to broker a $1.25B/month SpaceX compute deal.
- netfortius
There is no coming back from all this, is it?
- bix6
- dtf
"He offered to mop the floors at OpenAI to get his foot in the door."
The American dream is alive and kicking.
- stillpointlab
My most cynical take: keeping the feel-good image of Anthropic is a temporary ploy to keep fickle SV tech workers building the technology.
When OpenAI started to move obviously towards commercial and governmental ties, a lot of people left. Those people were necessary to build the tech. Many landed at Anthropic, a company that still attracts the most ideologically strict and capable ML researchers.
But at some point of their choosing, the powers that be will just take it.
- gsky
No sirprise after all Oligarchs rule america