Anthropic Secures SpaceX Colossus 1 Access for Claude AI

Anthropic announced a major computing partnership with SpaceX on Wednesday, securing full access to the company's Colossus 1 supercomputer cluster in Memphis, Tennessee, to bolster its Claude AI services amid surging demand.

The agreement provides Anthropic with more than 300 megawatts of additional capacity, powered by over 220,000 Nvidia GPUs. The resources are expected to come online within weeks, directly enhancing performance for Claude Pro and Claude Max subscribers. As a result, Anthropic is doubling five-hour usage limits for its Claude Code tool across Pro, Max, Team, and Enterprise plans. The company is also eliminating peak-hour restrictions for Pro and Max accounts and significantly increasing API rate limits for its Claude Opus models.

Anthropic co-founder Tom Brown highlighted the deal in a post on X, stating, "In the next few days, we'll be ramping up Claude inference on Colossus. Grateful to be partnering with SpaceX here. We are going to need to move a lot of atoms in order to keep up with AI demand, and there's nobody better at quickly moving atoms on or off planet Earth."

The partnership follows recent meetings between Elon Musk, who leads SpaceX, and senior...