Genuine question: Given Anthropic's current scale and valuation, why not invest in owning data centers in major markets rather than relying on cloud providers?

Is the bottleneck primarily capex, long lead times on power and GPUs, or the strategic risk of locking into fixed infrastructure in such a fast-moving space?

No way you can afford unlimited pr's and unlimited projects for 20$/month using anthropic api.

Ditto... but it's more like 30x.

Mentioned the same in this comment as well: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46881920

It's always the exorbitant price with such offerings.

A 2 vCPU, 4GB Ram and 40GB Disk instance on Hetzner cost 4.13 USD.

The same here is:

$127.72 without pro plan, and $108.72 with pro plan.

This means to break even, I can only use this for 4.13/127.72*730 = 23.6 hours every month, or, less than an hour daily.

The article mentions that it's compute time spent deploying the code and not "wall clock" time, so I don't think it's quite this bad?

Love how we went from "AI will replace all jobs" to "please rent a human to help my AI" in like 18 months :-D

Par for the course: AI is automating all of the high-level thinking before the manual labor first, which is the biggest tragedy of it all. At this rate our score on the Kardashev scale will be lower than the proportion of humans doing low-level meatspace stuff.

It's highly abstract(!) thinking and in contrast to a calculation now comes with no clean explanation too.

Putting humans on an API makes substituting robotics a simple thing as capabilities improve.

No no, not the LLaMA tokens, sir... Opus ones, please.

Attention is all you need?

A 25MB TTS model: https://github.com/kittenml/kittentts

Nice, I’ll have to try it out. They should really make a uv-installable CLI tool like pocket-TTS did. People underestimate just how much more immediately usable something becomes when you can simply get something by doing “uv tool install …”

True that. People, especially developers, underestimate the importance of packaging. Or, in general, making it easier for others to use your product.

So I benchmarked it and there’s really no advantage over pocket TTS. There are some tradeoffs like Kitten doesn’t have streaming audio.

Everything tends toward commodification in a hyper-competitive, hyper-connected world. The only variable is time... and this "time" keeps shrinking.

As commodification accelerates, consolidation follows. In the current landscape, where private capital and state power are deeply entangled under the banner of national security, this consolidation no longer stays economic. It becomes geopolitical.

The end result... it translates to not just corporate monopolies, but geo-monopolies... enforced not by markets alone, but by coercion, conflict, and control over resources.