Anthropic Just Doubled Claude’s Capacity With This Massive SpaceX Investment

Claude’s daddy, Anthropic, just inked a deal with SpaceX (SpaceXAI) to use the full computing power of SpaceX’s Colossus 1 data facility, giving them 300 more megawatts in capacity.

Paid plans will now have double the Claude Code limit. So, win-win.

Here’s Anthropic’s statement on X (SpaceXAI), “We’ve agreed to a partnership with @SpaceX that will substantially increase our compute capacity. This, along with our other recent compute deals, means that we’ve been able to increase our usage limits for Claude Code and the Claude API.”

It’s good news for Anthropic who needed more computing power following a surge in interest in their ‘Claude Code’ and it’s good news for Elon Musk who was keen to win AI investors’ trust ahead of SpaceXXX’s upcoming IPO.

For anyone questioning Elon’s AI ambitions (‘AImbitions’ if you will), this is a clear and singular direction for the rocket manufacturer-turned AI/social media company. SpaceX will be an AI-first company (as evidenced by the SpaceXAI rebrand).

Anthropic does seem like an odd choice to partner with as previously, Elon criticised the rival AI maker, Tweeting out, “Frankly, I don’t think ⁠there is anything you can do to escape the inevitable irony of Anthropic ending up being misanthropic.”

But now Elon seems to embrace Anthropic with open “AIrms”.

In what was 100% a subtle dig at Sam Altman, Musk wrote that “No one set off my evil detector,” after meeting with the Anthropic leaders who convinced Elon they were ensuring Claude would be “Good for humanity.”

So now the real question is, what happens to poor old Grok?

With this collaboration (and the dissolving of xAI), will Twitter’s own controversial AI chatbot be put down like a sick dog so Claude can take center stage?

Hopefully not.

Hopefully, Claude, Gemini, Grok, ChatGPT, and all the rest will have a FIGHT TO THE DEATH, and only the last one standing will be allowed to suggest slightly incorrect stroganoff recipes to me.