COMPUTE! The AI industry, overheard · Est. 2026
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The Frontier Circular · №2

A palace gazette of trivial movements, recorded with the gravity they deserve.

  1. Mr. Karpathy attended a stand-up at Anthropic’s San Francisco office. He brought a small moving box. The box was, by all accounts, the same one.
  2. Mr. Altman was Not Present at the stand-up. He was, per his brother’s podcast, “not worried” about it.
  3. Ms. Murati was, at filing, still raising. The round is structured as equity. The equity is, by all reports, in her.
  4. Mr. Schulman was reported to be, at filing, still at Thinking Machines. Compute! is unable to confirm this beyond the close of business.
  5. Mr. Nordeen, late of xAI, was observed walking past a Tesla showroom without stopping.
  6. Mr. Zuckerberg opened a new Slack workspace. Seven people from OpenAI were already in it.
  7. The Anthropic comms team was, as ever, busy.