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Anthropic to apply all of SpaceX-xAI's Colossus 1 data center compute
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Anthropic plans to use all of the compute capacity at xAI's Colossus 1 data center, as part of a partnership with the company's owner SpaceX.
Key facts
- The Information reports that its model flops utilization was around 11 percent, way below the 40 percent achieved by rivals
- The AI code editing company has also agreed to a $60 billion conditional takeover offer from SpaceX
- A month after its filing, the Elon Musk company announced that it would merge with Musk's generative AI company xAI in a deal that valued the two businesses at $1.25 trillion
- After that, the reporter was ok leasing Colossus 1 to Anthropic, as SpaceXAI had already moved training to Colossus 2
Summary
The deal gives Anthropic access to more than 300MW of capacity across more than 220,000 Nvidia GPUs within the month. Anthropic said that it has also "expressed interest" in partnering with SpaceX to develop multiple gigawatts of orbital AI compute capacity. A month after its filing, the Elon Musk company announced that it would merge with Musk's generative AI company xAI in a deal that valued the two businesses at $1.25 trillion. The company has faced several departures since the acquisition, including most of its cofounders and dozens of staff.