When Anthropic's chief product officer Ami Vora took the stage at the company's Code with Claude developer conference in San Francisco last week, those present likely expected updates on new models.
Instead, Vora announced that Anthropic had signed a deal with SpaceX to take full control of the Colossus 1 data centre in Memphis, in a pairing that would have seemed unthinkable just a few months ago.
The deal gives Anthropic access to more than "more than 300 megawatts of new capacity [and] over 220,000 NVIDIA GPUs within the month," according to a subsequent Anthropic statement, and will directly benefit subscribers to its Claude Pro and Claude Max plans.
A Musk-Anthropic union is as unlikely as they come. The man who called Anthropic "evil" and a company that "hates Western civilisation" a mere months ago now controls the infrastructure powering the expansion of Claude and enabling the rollout of extended programs for its paying users.
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