I think this is so useful to see! Apple overwhelms with so much presentation and technical details, but these are the actual differences between each generation in an easy guide!
News: Anthropic's usage-limiting was actually due to lack of compute capacity, not financial losses. xAI has decided to rent them their Grok data centre, Colossus 1, now that Colossus 2 is (allegedly) about to go online. Anthropic has removed peak hour rate-limiting and increased usage rate-limits across the board. (Edit: Not usage. Sorry, this was wrong originally.)
This actually makes sense: It's too early in the AI arms race for the big players to start getting shy about spending. Microsoft have done it because they're in the middle and are apparently not feeling benefit from people using Copilot (although you could argue that the chat data they're getting from Copilot could be invaluable in training a model -- this is why it's speculated that xAI wants to buy Cursor, for example).
These companies, and their investors, are never going to let them fail so early. There's still optimism that OpenAI or Anthropic will crack AGI -- and whoever does will win. Or so the hopium goes. Right or wrong, we still have a long way to go before every avenue is explored and every shred of optimism disappears.
But! Looked at another way, it seems the compute need is still overstated. xAI basically had a spare data centre to rent out... because they're not using it.
I can't wait to hear Ed's take, but this was a surprising twist.
Worth watching: https://youtu.be/3pkz-Ie_k_c?si=L-2zPUXX0-2TgpMU