Dario Amodei Reveals 80x Growth at Code with Claude Keynote, Announces SpaceX Colossus 1 Deal

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At Anthropic's Code with Claude conference on May 6, Dario Amodei disclosed that Anthropic grew 80x in Q1 2026 on an annualized basis — far beyond the planned 10x — pushing annualized revenue past $30 billion. Hours before his keynote, Anthropic announced a partnership with SpaceX to lease all compute capacity at the Colossus 1 data center in Memphis: 300+ megawatts, 220,000+ NVIDIA GPUs (H100, H200, GB200), available within the month. The deal also includes expressed interest in developing multi-gigawatt orbital AI compute via SpaceX satellites.