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points by ethagknight 3 days ago | 0 comments
all Anthropic contracts are cancelable if the intent is to stick public shareholders with a bag
[–] lumost 3 days ago
I'd imagine all of the vendors have an incentive to keep their main customer a float, while there might be penalties etc. for missed targets - it doesn't make sense for any of these vendors to ride the contract into chapter 11.
[–] runako 3 days ago
This is so important in analyzing these commitments. Anthropic's commitments will make them a Top 10 customer at many of their vendors. (Even at Google/Amazon, how many other customers do they have with $100B+ committed?)

Those vendors would very much like to retain as much of that business as possible. If the space goes sideways, I would very much expect some kind of renegotiation/work out.

[–] Mistletoe 3 days ago
This is always the intent for all recent IPOs I can remember.