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Anthropic Raises 285 Million GPU-Hours Equivalent In Series E Funding

March 3, 2025 Timothy Prickett Morgan 6

Rather than measure the funding rounds and valuations of AI startups building foundation models in US dollars, perhaps we should just convert that right into GPU-hours rented to train models, since this accounts for the vast majority of spending that OpenAI, Anthropic, and a handful of others do in their day to day operations. …

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