Anthropic’s SpaceX compute deal comes
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Anthropic, the artificial intelligence company behind Claude, is moving to servers in Memphis at the Colossus 1 supercomputer built by xAI. SpaceXAI, the company formerly called
Elon Musk’s SpaceXAI has struck a surprise deal granting Anthropic full access to its massive Colossus 1 supercomputer, despite Musk calling the AI lab “evil” just months ago. The arrangement gives Anthropic over 220,000 Nvidia GPUs to ease Claude AI ...
Anthropic PBC today announced that it will use SpaceX Corp.’s Colossus 1 supercomputer to power its Claude chatbot. The system was originally built in 2024 by xAI Holdings Corp., an artificial intelligence venture that Elon Musk launched the year prior. SpaceX obtained Colossus 1 when it acquired xAI earlier this year.
In an unexpected turn, the two companies signed a deal for Anthropic to use computing resources from Elon Musk’s xAI.
At the center of this deal is Colossus 1, a massive AI supercomputer built by SpaceXAI in record time to handle frontier-scale workloads. NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang said during a podcast that it only took SpaceXAI 19 days to build Colossus.
The parent company of Claude is set to be the 'sole tenant' of Colossus 1, according to Mayor Young