I wonder whether leadership is ignorant OR informed and willing to gamble that they, unlike everyone else, will succeed.<p>My prediction is that 1. SW for said chips will be inferior, 2. leadership will force everyone to use it anyway, 3. Anthropic will give it a shot and be handcuffed to mediocrity, 4. Anthropic folks will pivot to something that doesn’t suck.
Weird that the article frames the chips as “ Powered by Austin’s Annapurna”. It does say further down that Annapurna was an acquired Israeli company. But I wonder if the framing and emphasis on an American location is meant to avoid antitrust scrutiny from the new administration.