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Anthropic Gets in Bed With SpaceX as the AI Race Turns Weird
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Anthropic and Elon Musk’s SpaceX said on Wednesday that the two entities have signed an agreement for Anthropic to use computing resources from xAI’s data center in Memphis, Tennessee.
Key facts
- Yesterday, The Information reported that Anthropic had committed to spend $200 billion on Google’s AI cloud services and TPU chips
- Musk’s SpaceXAI first broke ground on Colossus 1 on a former Electrolux site in 2024
- The deal will give Anthropic access to more than 300 megawatts of new capacity, or approximately 220,000 Nvidia GPUs
- Anthropic has also used Amazon’s cloud computing services and AI chips since 2023
Summary
Anthropic executives made the announcement on stage at the company’s annual developer conference in San Francisco. The partnership comes at a pivotal time for SpaceXAI, which is seeking to go public as soon as next month. Notably, Space XAI said in its blog post that Anthropic has “expressed interest” in partnering to develop “orbital AI compute capacity”—essentially, data centers in space. Earlier this year, Musk criticized Anthropic’s AI models in a post on X, calling the company’s policies “misanthropic” and “evil,” and alleging without evidence that the AI models showed racial and sexual biases.