Anthropic Taps SpaceX Colossus-1 for 220,000 GPUs

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Anthropic announced on May 6 that it will use SpaceX's Colossus-1 supercomputer, which includes 220,000 GPUs, to power inference for its Claude AI model. The deal emerged as Anthropic faced compute capacity constraints amid 80-fold growth in the first quarter. The agreement marks an unexpected partnership between the AI safety company and Elon Musk's space venture, spanning both AI infrastructure and space development collaboration.

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