SpaceX leases the Colossus 1 supercomputer with over 220,000 Nvidia GPUs to Anthropic for six months, boosting Claude's inference capacity as xAI shifts to Colossus 2.

"As the recently expanded partnership with Anthropic demonstrates, SpaceX is offering AI compute as a service at significant scale"

SpaceX did not commit to a multi-year Colossus 1 lease with Anthropic, Elon Musk said on Wednesday, describing the agreement as 180 days with a 90-day mutual cancellation right.

SpaceX CEO says short-term deal could still be extended if capacity pressures ease