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SpaceX's S-1 surfaced that rival Anthropic rents 300MW (~220,000 GPUs) of xAI's Colossus 1 capacity near Memphis for $1.25B a month through May 2029, a contract that could exceed $40B, terminable on 90 days' notice. xAI posted a ~$2.4B Q1 loss against $7.7B capex. Competitors renting each other's GPUs is the strangest, most telling structure of this cycle.
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Reflection gets access to SpaceX's Colossus 2 data center near Memphis at $150M/month starting July 1, with immediate Nvidia GB300 access and a 90-day exit after the first three months. (CNBC) Reflection, last valued at $25B and building American open-source frontier models, j...
This one hit my inbox and I had to read it twice. Anthropic announced a partnership with SpaceXAI for the entire Colossus 1 data center in Memphis. 220,000 NVIDIA GPUs. 300+ megawatts. That's the largest single compute acquisition by any AI lab. Full stop. But the part that ma...
Two announcements from Anthropic yesterday, and they're connected in a way that matters. First, the immediate impact: Claude Code rate limits doubled across Pro, Max, Team, and Enterprise. Peak-hours throttling removed for Pro and Max. Opus API rate limits got a 1500% input to...
On July 9, Musk called Anthropic "obviously currently the leader in AI" and pledged never to cut off access, reversing his September 2025 claim that "winning was never in the set of possible outcomes for Anthropic." The context is structural: Anthropic pays roughly $1.25B/mont...
Announced at Code with Claude, this is the largest single capacity expansion by any AI lab. Directly addresses the rate limiting and availability issues Claude users have been hitting.
Fortune reports Anthropic grew 80-fold in Q1, far exceeding its planned 10x. Revenue run rate reached $30B (up from $9B at end of 2025). Claude Code alone hit $1B ARR within six months. The compute crunch forced a deal with xAI for Colossus 1's 220,000 GPUs and 300MW of capaci...
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