SpaceXAI will provide Anthropic with access to Colossus 1

52 points
1/21/1970
12 hours ago
by droidjj

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aurareturn

Makes sense. Elon overestimated Grok usage and compute demands. Anthropic massively underestimated and is likely looking in every corner of the world for compute. SpaceX also wants additional revenue on the books for IPO.

12 hours ago

lanthissa

yeah people have been talking about this for a few weeks. Spacex is the only unallocated nvidia gpu's on earth, anthropic is going through a crisis due to lack of compute.

It would have been a huge black mark on the record of both if they couldn't manage to put the deal together.

9 hours ago

nerdsniper

> Spacex is the only unallocated nvidia gpu's on earth

There are reportedly significant additional un-deployed GPU's (which cannot be allocated) sitting in boxes in warehouses at OpenAI who doesn't have facilities or power to deploy them. But that's a separate thing.

9 hours ago

mudkipdev

If an OpenAI employee is reading this, I'll gladly take them off you :)

7 hours ago

fennecbutt

Does anthropic trust spacex enough for this though.

6 hours ago

naveen99

If they trust Claude code, they can trust spacex. Safety trust tm.

26 minutes ago

gbnwl

I mean yes? Considering that we're here reading the news that they've agreed to this.

5 hours ago

gizajob

Maybe this is how xAI gets to that outlandish valuation included in the IPO numbers.

11 hours ago

serf

... well and they want to twist whatever knives they have in oAI -- if they can help the competition with their silly over-spend more the better.

10 hours ago

dyauspitr

Plenty of people paying the grok $300/month fee almost exclusively to generate high quality soft porn videos. I’ve “tested” it myself during a trial period and boy is it good.

12 hours ago

general1465

So the problem is not enough gooners are willing to pay.

11 hours ago

brianwawok

It’s the venn diagram of gooners and people with $300 of disposable income.

6 hours ago

naveen99

So what’s the terafab for if spacex already has so much unused capacity ?

28 minutes ago

gizmodo59

where are all the claude fans who hate elon? Its very funny how ant will do anything at this point.

6 hours ago

freedomben

See also for the Anthropic blog/announcment on this, which includes higher usage limits for Claude: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48037986

10 hours ago

ChrisArchitect

More discussion on associated Anthropic post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48037986

8 hours ago

metadat

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11 hours ago