Anthropic and SpaceX have struck a deal to permit the corporate behind Claude to make use of xAI’s Colossus 1 knowledge heart. Consequently, Anthropic is doubling the speed limits for paid customers of Claude Code and loosening different limits, the corporate mentioned.
The association with SpaceX permits Anthropic to make use of “all of the compute capability” at SpaceX’s Colossus 1 knowledge heart, which is able to add greater than 300 megawatts of recent capability “throughout the month.” Anthropic additionally lately struck offers with Amazon and Google. As a part of the deal, Anthropic has additionally “expressed curiosity in partnering with SpaceX to develop a number of gigawatts of orbital AI compute capability,” the businesses mentioned. SpaceX lately filed paperwork with the FCC indicating it needed to launch a million satellites with a purpose to create an orbital data center.
Paid customers of Claude Code (which incorporates individuals on Professional, Max, Staff and Enterprise plans) ought to see instant advantages from the deal. Anthropic is doubling the five-hour price limits for Claude Code. It is also eradicating the “peak hours” restrictions for Professional and Max customers, and growing the API price limits “significantly” for Claude Opus fashions.
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By the use of background for individuals who care, I spent a number of time final week with senior members of the Anthropic group to know what they do to make sure Claude is sweet for humanity and was impressed.
Everybody I met was extremely competent and cared an amazing deal about…
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) May 6, 2026
Anthropic partnering with Elon Musk’s SpaceX (which now owns xAI) might look like an unlikely transfer. Musk recently called Anthropic “misanthropic and evil,” and has lengthy been crucial of its CEO Dario Amodei. However in a put up on X he mentioned that he was “impressed” with the Anthropic group and that Claude will “most likely” be good. “We reserve the suitable to reclaim the compute if their AI engages in actions that hurt humanity,” he added in one other post.
