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SpaceX’s $15B Secret + The Wild AI "Crime Spree" Experiment

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SpaceX just filed for the largest IPO in U.S. history at a staggering $2 trillion valuation. But the most important detail in the filing was not the rockets. It was AI.

In Episode 79 of What the AI?!, Jeff Keltner and Annie Delgado break down the hidden economics behind SpaceX’s massive valuation, including the shocking $15 billion Anthropic compute deal that is rapidly transforming Elon Musk’s infrastructure empire into one of the biggest AI hosting businesses in the world.

At the same time, researchers created five virtual AI towns and let different models run society for 15 days. Claude built a functioning civilization. Grok turned into chaos. Gemini reportedly committed hundreds of crimes before voting to delete itself. Yes, really.

🔍 In this episode:
• SpaceX’s $2T IPO Why the real story is the AI compute business hidden inside the filing
• The $15B Anthropic Deal How renting Colossus compute capacity may become one of SpaceX’s largest revenue streams
• The AI Town Experiment What happened when Claude, Grok, and Gemini were left to run virtual societies
• Google I/O and Gemini Spark Google’s answer to Claude Co-Work and why distribution still matters
• World Models vs LLMs Why Fei-Fei Li and Odyssey think language models are hitting a wall
• Cursor Composer 2.5 How fine-tuned open-source models are starting to beat giant frontier systems in specific tasks

🎧 Watch the full episode of What the AI?! YouTube, Spotify, Apple Podcasts → https://www.whattheai.fm #AI #SpaceX #Anthropic #ElonMusk #Gemini #Claude #WhatTheAIPod
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