Anthropic, the artificial intelligence company behind the Claude chatbot, has reached an agreement to tap into the computing resources of Elon Musk's SpaceX. The deal marks a detente with Musk, a one-time critic, and provides a boost for both companies in the high-stakes AI race.
Under the agreement announced Wednesday, Anthropic will use the full computing power of SpaceX's Colossus 1 facility in Memphis, Tennessee. The facility houses more than 220,000 Nvidia processors and will provide the Claude chatbot maker with 300 megawatts of new capacity within a month — enough electricity to power over 300,000 homes.
The announcement coincided with Anthropic's developer day, where the company unveiled a new feature for its Claude AI system called "dreaming." The tool allows AI systems to review work between sessions, spot patterns, and update files that store user preferences and other context. Available as a research preview, "dreaming" comes with software for managing AI agents that perform tasks with minimal human involvement.
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei has previously warned that AI could eliminate 50 percent of entry-level jobs within the next one to five years. Buoyed by the extra capacity from the SpaceX deal and other recent agreements, Anthropic said it is doubling Claude Code's rate limits for paid plans, removing peak-hour usage caps for Pro and Max accounts, and sharply increasing the volume of requests developers can make to its Claude Opus models.
The company also expressed interest in working with SpaceX to develop multiple gigawatts of space-based orbital data centers — one of Musk's key goals and a major driver behind SpaceX's initial public offering. The endeavor is expected to be highly capital-intensive and technically challenging.
In a statement on X, Musk said he made the decision to lease computing power to Anthropic after spending time with its leaders last week. "No one set off my evil detector," Musk wrote, referring to his ongoing legal battle with OpenAI and CEO Sam Altman, whom he accuses of breaching the mission to develop AI for the good of humanity.
The deal comes as the administration of U.S. President Donald Trump reportedly pens new agreements with other AI giants, excluding Anthropic. On Tuesday, tech giants Microsoft, Google, and Musk's own xAI agreed to allow the federal government to test their new AI tools amid hacking concerns surrounding Anthropic's technology. Last week, the Department of Defense also announced a deal with 10 different AI companies to use their tech on classified networks — a deal from which Anthropic was notably absent.
Source: www.aljazeera.com