For months, Elon Musk publicly attacked Anthropic. Today, however, the billionaire is opening the doors to one of the most powerful supercomputers on the market. Behind this surprise agreement between SpaceXAI and the company behind Claude lies a reality that has become central in the AI war: domination no longer depends only on models, but above all on access to GPUs, energy and infrastructure capable of powering the next generation of artificial intelligence.
In brief
- Anthropic signs a surprise agreement with SpaceXAI to access the entire Colossus 1 supercomputer and its 220,000 Nvidia GPUs.
- This partnership should allow the company behind Claude to significantly increase its computing capacities and accelerate the development of its AI tools.
- The agreement marks a spectacular turnaround for Elon Musk, who until recently criticized Anthropic in a very virulent manner.
- The race for artificial intelligence is now moving towards control of infrastructure, energy and massive computing capabilities.
Anthropic recovers the computing power of the giant SpaceXAI
Anthropic, despite its ban by the Pentagon, signed a major partnership with SpaceXAI in order to use all the capacities of the Colossus 1 data center located in Memphis. The agreement marks a new stage in the global race for artificial intelligence, where domination now requires access to infrastructure capable of powering the most advanced models.
Here is some key elements :
- More than 220,000 Nvidia GPUs would be mobilized under this agreement;
- The site would have a power of more than 300 megawatts;
- Anthropic says this partnership will significantly increase its computing capabilities;
- The company says it uses all the computing power of SpaceX's Colossus 1 data center;
- The new resources must strengthen the performance of Claude Code as well as the Claude Pro, Claude Max offers and the developers API.
This surge comes as the industry faces a persistent shortage of advanced GPUs. For large AI laboratories, securing massive computing capacities is becoming as strategic an issue as the development of the models themselves. Anthropic thus seeks to consolidate its position against OpenAI, Google and xAI in a technological battle where infrastructure has become a major lever of domination.
Elon Musk turns his coat on Anthropic
The agreement also surprises by Elon Musk's radical change of tone towards Anthropic. In recent months, the billionaire had publicly described the company as “misanthropic” And “evil”accusing certain AI players of developing ideologically dangerous models. This time, Musk is taking a much more conciliatory stance. Commenting on the partnership, he said: “no one triggered my malware detector”. Such a sentence contrasts sharply with his previous criticisms.
This merger is part of a strategy to monetize SpaceXAI's infrastructure. Several American media are already talking about a future potentially massive IPO for the company, while its computing capabilities become a commercial product in their own right. Anthropic and SpaceXAI are even reportedly discussing projects related to orbital data centers capable of powering future artificial intelligence models from space.
This development shows how AI competition is reshaping both technology sector alliances and investment priorities in venture capital. Ideological rivalries now take a back seat to the colossal industrial needs of AI laboratories. As models become more power and computationally intensive, companies that can control infrastructure could become as important as those that develop the models themselves.
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