SpaceX's 34.5% of its revenue during the last quarter came from a single client paying, identified as 'Customer B', and it is the company whose CEO Elon Musk told: I do not agree with your donation to …
Dario Amodei-led Anthropic is SpaceX ’s largest single customer that accounts for more than one-third of its revenue, a source told Bloomberg. The space company led by Elon Musk revealed in a filing next week that nearly 34.5% of its revenue during the last quarter came from a single client identified as “Customer B”. Anthropic, as per the report, is paying its AI division, now called Super Intelligence, which supplies computing power. Notably, Spacex’s revenue from Anthropic has surpassed payments from the US federal government, which was previously its biggest single customer.
The revelation comes days after Elon Musk said that he does not agree with Anthropic’s donation of its shares to the Anthropic Public Benefit Fund, a new wholly owned entity dedicated entirely to the public benefit.
Anthropic’s payments help boost SpaceX’s AI businessAs stated in the report, the revenue comes from deals Anthropic signed with SpaceX earlier this year to use computing capacity at the company’s data centres in Memphis, Tennessee.
Elon Musk has been expanding SpaceX’s AI business by renting out computing capacity from its data centres to other companies. These include Anthropic and Google, which is part of Alphabet. The strategy appears to be paying off. SpaceX’s AI business turned profitable for the first time during the quarter, helping support Musk’s target of reaching $100 billion in annualised revenue by the end of 2026.
Elon Musk says he does not agree with your donation of Anthropic sharesEarlier this month, the Claude-maker said that it will give away 5% of shares. “For every 50% increase in the company’s value over a set baseline, we can contribute up to an extra 2%, subject to our board’s discretion,”Anthropic, led by Dario Amodei , said. “In total, this means that roughly 20% of Anthropic’s shares are committed to the public good. Our co-founders have already pledged to donate 80% of their equity, and around half our employees are donating a portion of their equity as part of a donation matching program we’ve run since our founding,” the post continues.
Elon Musk replied to Anthropic’s announcement recommending shares be distributed directly to the public instead of routed through an intermediary entity. “I recommend giving the shares directly to the public,” Elon Musk wrote. “This is what I will be doing,” he said in another post.
The revelation comes days after Elon Musk said that he does not agree with Anthropic’s donation of its shares to the Anthropic Public Benefit Fund, a new wholly owned entity dedicated entirely to the public benefit.
Anthropic’s payments help boost SpaceX’s AI businessAs stated in the report, the revenue comes from deals Anthropic signed with SpaceX earlier this year to use computing capacity at the company’s data centres in Memphis, Tennessee.
Elon Musk has been expanding SpaceX’s AI business by renting out computing capacity from its data centres to other companies. These include Anthropic and Google, which is part of Alphabet. The strategy appears to be paying off. SpaceX’s AI business turned profitable for the first time during the quarter, helping support Musk’s target of reaching $100 billion in annualised revenue by the end of 2026.
Elon Musk says he does not agree with your donation of Anthropic sharesEarlier this month, the Claude-maker said that it will give away 5% of shares. “For every 50% increase in the company’s value over a set baseline, we can contribute up to an extra 2%, subject to our board’s discretion,”Anthropic, led by Dario Amodei , said. “In total, this means that roughly 20% of Anthropic’s shares are committed to the public good. Our co-founders have already pledged to donate 80% of their equity, and around half our employees are donating a portion of their equity as part of a donation matching program we’ve run since our founding,” the post continues.
Elon Musk replied to Anthropic’s announcement recommending shares be distributed directly to the public instead of routed through an intermediary entity. “I recommend giving the shares directly to the public,” Elon Musk wrote. “This is what I will be doing,” he said in another post.
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