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Gradient Descent

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Thursday, May 7 2026

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Today's Brief

It's like a highway system where the roads just got wider and the tolls decreased - suddenly, a lot more traffic can move through, which is why Anthropic can take over a whole data center and OpenAI can collaborate with hardware giants on a new networking protocol. This shift in AI tooling is going to land on a trading desk as a cheaper way to backtest models or on a sports team as a way to analyze player performance with more precision. Now you have to ask yourself: are you using last year's map to navigate this new highway system, or are you taking advantage of the fact that 760M parameters can outperform models many times its size?

📊 AI & Data Tools
Anthropic taps SpaceX's Colossus-1 data center for 220,000 GPUs to power Claude

Anthropic is taking over the full computing capacity of SpaceX's Colossus 1 data center, with over 220,000 NVIDIA GPUs, and doubling rate limits for Claude Code. This changes the game for large-scale AI model training, allowing for faster and more efficient processing of complex tasks, which means you can now train models that were previously too expensive to run.

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