Aakash GuptaLead source
Elon once paid $12.7 million of OpenAI's office rent, and now OpenAI's president is the one coming to him asking for computing power. That's because Elon quietly became the AI industry's landlord. His company collects about $2.17 billion a month renting chips to OpenAI's two biggest rivals. After SpaceX folded in xAI, it started leasing out the Colossus data centers in Memphis that were built to train Grok. Anthropic pays $1.25 billion a month for roughly 325,000 Nvidia GPUs, and Google pays $920 million a month for about 110,000 more, both on deals that run into 2029. Greg Brockman went to two people. One was Elon, and the other was Sergey Brin, whose own company is one of Elon's tenants. Google is the part that gets me. It designs its own AI chips and gets called the biggest owner of…Read original on X