WSJ: Inside Silicon Valley's compute wars — Google paid $2.7B for Shazeer, then lost him to OpenAI
dotey · x · 2026-10-12
A WSJ deep-dive reveals compute has become Silicon Valley's top battleground: Google paid $2.7B for Character.AI mainly to rehire Noam Shazeer, who left for OpenAI after Gemini's compute was cut; DeepMind reportedly loses internal compute fights; Anthropic failed to buy Meta's excess GPUs but secured SpaceX datacenters via Tom Brown; a shadowy compute-broker business is thriving.
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