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Anthropic and Elon<\/span> Musk\u2019s SpaceX said on Wednesday that the two entities have signed an agreement for Anthropic to use computing resources from xAI\u2019s data center in Memphis, Tennessee. It\u2019s the latest tie up in an industry that is scrambling to find enough computers to run complex AI software. SpaceX and xAI were previously separate companies, but the two merged earlier this year. The combined entity, also owned by Musk, is called SpaceXAI.<\/p>\n Anthropic executives made the announcement on stage at the company\u2019s annual developer conference in San Francisco. SpaceXAI also put out a blog post sharing more details about the deal, which will see Anthropic draw power from xAI\u2019s Colossus 1 supercomputer.<\/p>\n The partnership comes at a pivotal time for SpaceXAI, which is seeking to go public as soon as next month. A relationship with a leading AI lab could bolster SpaceX\u2019s credibility as it pitches investors on the potential gold mine in establishing more data centers, including in space.<\/p>\n Notably, Space XAI said in its blog post that Anthropic has \u201cexpressed interest\u201d in partnering to develop \u201corbital AI compute capacity\u201d\u2014essentially, data centers in space. Having Anthropic as a potential customer could help SpaceXAI boost investor confidence that there will be buyers for its super expensive supercomputing project.<\/p>\n Earlier this year, Musk criticized Anthropic\u2019s AI models in a post on X, calling the company\u2019s policies \u201cmisanthropic\u201d and \u201cevil,\u201d and alleging without evidence that the AI models showed racial and sexual biases.<\/p>\n Now, he\u2019s significantly changed his tune, writing on X that he \u201cspent a lot of time last week with senior members of the Anthropic team to understand what they do to ensure Claude is good for humanity and was impressed.\u201d<\/p>\n Musk\u2019s SpaceXAI first broke ground on Colossus 1 on a former Electrolux site in 2024. The company claims that it is one of the largest and fastest AI supercomputers in the world. It includes roughly 220,000 Nvidia GPUs, ranging from Nvidia\u2019s H100 and H200 to its newer GB200 chips. The company likes to boast that it built the supercomputer in 122 days.<\/p>\n Emissions from gas turbines at the data center have prompted numerous complaints from local residents. Last month, environmental protesters demonstrated at a nearby SpaceX investor gathering ahead of the IPO.<\/p>\n Anthropic plans to use its newfound computing power to \u201cdirectly improve capacity for Claude Pro and Claude Max subscribers,\u201d both companies said. The deal will give Anthropic access to more than 300 megawatts of new capacity, or approximately 220,000 Nvidia GPUs. In recent months, software developers have increasingly complained about rate limits and service disruptions to Claude Code, due to the physical limits of available computing resources.<\/p>\n As more and more people use services like OpenAI\u2019s Codex and Anthropic\u2019s Claude Code\u2014sometimes running coding programs and agentic tasks for hours on end\u2014the services are being bogged down. According to Anthropic, the average developer is now spending at least 20 hours per week running Claude Code.<\/p>\n Yesterday, The Information reported that Anthropic had committed to spend $200 billion on Google\u2019s AI cloud services and TPU chips. Anthropic has also used Amazon\u2019s cloud computing services and AI chips since 2023. Last month, Anthropic committed \u201cmore than $100 billion over the next ten years to [Amazon] technologies.\u201d According to the Information report, contracts with Anthropic and OpenAI now account for \u201cmore than half of the $2 trillion in backlogs at major cloud providers\u201d like Amazon, Microsoft, and Google.<\/p>\n