BREAKING
OpenAI, Anthropic Give YC $500K Each
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per provider
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M
stacked total
Who Is Offering What
Anthropic
No equity
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$500K Claude API credits
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Up from just $30K
OpenAI
Optional equity
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$500K free tokens
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+$1.5M for equity
Google Cloud
No equity
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Up to $500K credits
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Early Gemini access
Why Providers Are Racing
1
Subsidize startups
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2
Become default
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3
Lock in scale
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x
cohorts per year
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companies each
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Touchmark got
Non-Dilutive Runway, 12-Month Clock
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AI giants are handing early-stage startups huge free computing credits to lock them in.