SpaceXAI will provide Anthropic with access to Colossus 1

Re:SpaceXAI will provide Anthropic with access to Colossus 1 by aurareturn on Wednesday May 06, 2026 @12:54PM (#48038486)

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.

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Re:SpaceXAI will provide Anthropic with access to Colossus 1 by lanthissa on Wednesday May 06, 2026 @03:12PM (#48040344)

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.

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Re:SpaceXAI will provide Anthropic with access to Colossus 1 by nerdsniper on Wednesday May 06, 2026 @03:51PM (#48040861)

> 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.

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Re:SpaceXAI will provide Anthropic with access to Colossus 1 by mudkipdev on Wednesday May 06, 2026 @06:01PM (#48042474)

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

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Re:SpaceXAI will provide Anthropic with access to Colossus 1 by fennecbutt on Wednesday May 06, 2026 @06:10PM (#48042571)

Does anthropic trust spacex enough for this though.

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Re:SpaceXAI will provide Anthropic with access to Colossus 1 by gbnwl on Wednesday May 06, 2026 @07:42PM (#48043383)

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

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Re:SpaceXAI will provide Anthropic with access to Colossus 1 by naveen99 on Thursday May 07, 2026 @12:13AM (#48045303)

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

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Re:SpaceXAI will provide Anthropic with access to Colossus 1 by gizajob on Wednesday May 06, 2026 @01:59PM (#48039364)

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

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Re:SpaceXAI will provide Anthropic with access to Colossus 1 by serf on Wednesday May 06, 2026 @03:08PM (#48040291)

... 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.

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Re:SpaceXAI will provide Anthropic with access to Colossus 1 by dyauspitr on Wednesday May 06, 2026 @12:58PM (#48038549)

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.

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Re:SpaceXAI will provide Anthropic with access to Colossus 1 by general1465 on Wednesday May 06, 2026 @01:53PM (#48039275)

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

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Re:SpaceXAI will provide Anthropic with access to Colossus 1 by brianwawok on Wednesday May 06, 2026 @07:08PM (#48043073)

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

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