Elon Musk's xAI and Anthropic announced Wednesday that the Claude-maker will purchase the entire 300‑megawatt compute capacity of xAI's Colossus 1 data center. The move instantly lifts Anthropic's usage limits and monetizes a key xAI asset, turning the startup from a consumer of AI power into a cloud‑service provider. Musk said the purchase frees up Colossus 1 as xAI shifts its training workloads to a newer facility, Colossus 2, and aligns with the company's broader push toward an IPO and a space‑based data‑center vision. Read more →

Anthropic announced a deal with Elon Musk’s merged SpaceXAI to draw computing power from the company’s Colossus 1 supercomputer in Memphis, Tennessee. The agreement, unveiled at Anthropic’s developer conference, gives the AI lab access to more than 300 megawatts of capacity – roughly 220,000 Nvidia GPUs – to boost its Claude Pro and Claude Max services. SpaceXAI, which is eyeing an imminent IPO, hopes the partnership will validate its push toward orbital AI compute centers. The pact marks a sharp turn from Musk’s earlier criticism of Anthropic’s models. Read more →