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The SpaceX-Anthropic compute lease deal solves a critical structural problem for both companies and validates Elon's bet on building massive compute infrastructure ahead of demand.
Chamath Palihapitiya and Brad Gerstner explain that the deal provides Anthropic with desperately needed compute (220K GPUs, 300+ MW), solves xAI's balance sheet problem by monetizing excess capacity, and validates the SpaceX IPO thesis by establishing Elon Web Services as a real hyperscaler business. ✦ AI generated
Chamath Palihapitiya · All-In Podcast · 2026-05-08 · original ↗
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“Let's talk about the emergence of Elon Web Services, EWS, Chamath. He's now in the hyperscaler, competing against Google Cloud, Amazon Web Services, and Azure.”
I think the deal is fantastic. ... Anthropic and OpenAI's revenue performance has nothing to do with demand. Zero. It is entirely to do with the supply constraints that exist in data centers and specifically in power. If they had infinite power, I think that their revenues would probably be even more parabolic. ... For Elon, if you look inside of how people try to nitpick the SpaceX valuation case... the biggest element is the on-the-come value around the orbital data centers. And by actually landing a bunch of terrestrial capacity, I think you start to blunt that because you can now start to say that even if the orbital data centers get delayed by a few months or a few quarters... he now has a structural core business that will effectively subsidize his ability to train Grok.
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SpaceX's IPO — raising $75 billion at a $1.75 trillion valuation and trading up 25% on roughly $35 billion of forward revenue — was a textbook success that both Anthropic and OpenAI studied closely, setting a blueprint that could support blockbuster IPOs at even higher valuations given their much larger revenue trajectories.Brad Gerstner · All-In Podcast · conf 70%Anthropic's revenue trajectory is unlike anything Silicon Valley has ever seen — growing 10x per year, from $10B ARR to $30B in Q1 alone, and on track to exit the year at ~$100B ARR.David Sacks · All-In Podcast · conf 60%
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explains mechanism → Anthropic's revenue trajectory is unlike anything Silicon Valley has ever seen — growing 10x per year, from $10B ARR to $30B in Q1 alone, and on track to exit the year at ~$100B ARR.David Sacks · All-In Podcastextends → SpaceX's IPO — raising $75 billion at a $1.75 trillion valuation and trading up 25% on roughly $35 billion of forward revenue — was a textbook success that both Anthropic and OpenAI studied closely, setting a blueprint that could support blockbuster IPOs at even higher valuations given their much larger revenue trajectories.Brad Gerstner · All-In Podcastprovides context → Unless its trajectory changes, Anthropic is on track to become the most powerful monopoly ever created in human history — eclipsing the entire Magnificent Seven combined.David Sacks · All-In Podcast