Elon and Anthropic Are About to Win Everything: Why SpaceX Compute Changes the AI Stack
Their revenue is climbing violently, roughly $9 billion in annual run rate at the end of '25, and then about 19 billion by March, and 30 billion by the first week of April. So, for most of the modern AI era, going back to GPT-3 in 2020, the assumption was that Big Tech, meaning Microsoft, Google, Amazon, Meta, they own the megawatts, they own the data centers, and the AI labs are tenants on top of the structure, so the OpenAI's and Anthropic's. Puzzle piece number two, on February 2nd, 2026, SpaceX absorbed xAI in an all-stock transaction valuing the combined entity at roughly $1.25 trillion, much closer to $2 trillion based on today's estimated valuations. Anthropic's annual revenue run rate ramp from 9 to 30 billion in roughly 100 days is the fastest revenue ramp of any company in history. From the current Falcon 9 prices, that is omewhere between a 30 times and a 300 times reduction.
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