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Anthropic Secures Massive Compute from SpaceX's Colossus Supercluster, Boosts Claude Usage Limits

Anthropic announced a major compute partnership with SpaceX, gaining access to over 300MW and 220,000+ NVIDIA GPUs at the Colossus 1 data center to scale Claude AI services. This deal, alongside others totaling 15GW+, doubles rate limits for Claude Code and API, eliminating peak-hour restrictions for Pro/Max users. The move signals the end of compute scarcity for Anthropic amid surging AI demand.

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Elon Musk's SpaceX arming rival Anthropic with frontier-scale compute intensifies the infrastructure arms race, commoditizing models while infrastructure becomes the ultimate moat.

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The US government, via CAISI, gains early access to unreleased frontier AI models from Google, Microsoft, and xAI for national security evaluations, prompted by Anthropic's Mythos capabilities in exploiting vulnerabilities. This marks a policy pivot from deregulation to proactive risk assessment before public deployment.
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Microsoft, Google and xAI to give US government early access to AI models for security checks

Microsoft, Google, and xAI agreed to share unreleased frontier AI models with the US Department of Commerce for pre-deployment national security evaluations, spurred by Anthropic's Mythos model exposing software vulnerabilities. This expands prior pacts with OpenAI and Anthropic, aiming to assess cyber and bio risks before public release.
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