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Anthropic announced that it has secured a massive computing deal with xAI to use one of its data centers to help reduce its compute crunch.
Or should we say SpaceXAI? Elon Musk said today that his AI company (first merged with X, formerly Twitter, and then #SpaceX 🚀 more recently) will simply be called SpaceXAI. Regardless, the deal is massive:
Anthropic will rent compute from SpaceXAI’s Colossus 1 compute cluster, which features “over 220,000 NVIDIA GPUs, including dense deployments of H100, H200, and next-generation GB200 accelerators.”
Per Anthropic, the deal means it will have access to 300mw of fresh compute, which will be turned on quickly. Tom Brown, co-founder and Chief Compute Officer at Anthropic, posted that his company will “[ramp] up Claude inference on Colossus” over “the next few days.”
As a result of the SpaceXAI deal and its “other recent compute deals,” Anthropic is throwing the market a bone and raising usage limits for Claude Code. The details matter, but the gist is that Anthropic needed more compute, SpaceXAI had a spare one, and now both companies are in a better place.
Sure, we’re seeing two of the largest companies find a way to play nice after a war of words. But the deal underscores the odd place that the artist formerly known as xAI finds itself in; after falling behind the frontier curve in AI model development, several reorgs, and the depature of its host of co-founders, SpaceXAI launched a massive partnership with Cursor that could be worth $10 billion (minimum), and $60 billion (if SpaceXAI calls an option to buy the smaller company outright).
And now, it’s renting out compute, too. On one hand, SpaceXAI is famous for how quickly it has spun up new compute capacity. On the other hand, it’s almost weird to see an AI lab have spare capacity, period. No one else seems to have any.
But if you are SpaceX, and are busy counting down to an IPO, collecting a massive new revenue stream against the money you spent last year (that will show up in your S-1) is simply good business. And now the Claude-pilled can stay tokenmaxxing. Onward!
https://x.ai/news/anthrop..
