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puffin
@puffinancial
buyside tech but i discuss whatever tf i want. best golf score: 84 (twice). this sht ain’t nothing to me man. radius/spybar front right. only ideas not advice



$SKM paid $100 million for an Anthropic stake in August 2023. That position is now worth an estimated $2.7 billion, roughly 19% of SKT's entire market cap. On June 10, $SKM's CEO Jung Jae-heon confirmed the company participated in the Series H and has no plans to sell. His framing was explicit: this is not about how much they make at IPO, it is about maintaining the partnership. He confirmed Anthropic is actively discussing compute infrastructure with SKT and treats them as a preferred partner specifically because they are a shareholder. $SKM also just joined Project Glasswing. Glasswing is Anthropic's most restricted model tier, invite-only, giving a handful of trusted organizations access to Claude Mythos Preview, the most capable model Anthropic has built and the one not available to the public. A Korean telco with 45% domestic mobile market share getting that access tells you exactly how deep this partnership runs. Then on June 7, $NVDA and $SKM announced a gigawatt-scale AI Cloud built on the NVIDIA DSX platform, with the first AI factory coming online in 2027. Jensen Huang said it directly: telecom networks are becoming national AI infrastructure. $SKM is building the compute backbone of Korea's entire AI ecosystem, with Anthropic sitting as the primary model layer on top of it. This is not a telco holding a financial stake. It is the infrastructure partner, the sovereign compute provider, and the exclusive Anthropic distributor for the Korean enterprise market, all in one company trading at 6.1x EV/EBITDA with a 4.4% dividend. We ran full DCF models and peer comps on $SKM and two other mispriced Anthropic proxy plays the market has completely missed. Deep dive linked in our bio and in the comments.











