OpenAI and Anthropic are giving away millions in computing power to attract startups

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OpenAI, Anthropic, and major cloud providers are racing to outbid each other with free compute credits to pull startups into their ecosystems.

Some individual offers top $3 million.

At Y Combinator alone, OpenAI and Anthropic could hand out up to $800 million in credits per year combined.

The discount war comes at a time when both companies need to improve their margins ahead of upcoming IPOs.

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