— That is the reason we have had difficulties with compute, says CEO Dario Amodei, revealing their strain on infrastructure since at least April.
The company has now made a deal with SpaceX for instant access to their entire Colossus 1 supercomputer, consisting of some 220,000 Nvidia GPUs, totaling more than 300 megawatts.
Using all of that capacity should immediately improve access for Anthropic’s users, and they are already doubling rate limits for the Pro and Max plans, and is «considerably» increasing API rates, while removing «peak hours» restrictions.
Elon Musk says he approved the deal after evaluating Anthropic’s altruism, that xAI will be known as SpaceXAI and that they have already moved Grok training to the Colossus 2 cluster.
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