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SpaceXAI will provide Anthropic with access to Colossus 1

58 points by droidjj 5mo ago

aurareturn 5mo ago
Makes sense. Elon overestimated Grok usage and compute demands. Anthropic massively underestimated and is likely looking in every corner of the world for compute. SpaceX also wants additional revenue on the books for IPO.
- dyauspitr 5mo ago
  Plenty of people paying the grok $300/month fee almost exclusively to generate high quality soft porn videos. I’ve “tested” it myself during a trial period and boy is it good.
  - general1465 5mo ago
    So the problem is not enough gooners are willing to pay.
    - brianwawok 5mo ago
      It’s the venn diagram of gooners and people with $300 of disposable income.
- gizajob 5mo ago
  Maybe this is how xAI gets to that outlandish valuation included in the IPO numbers.
- serf 5mo ago
  ... well and they want to twist whatever knives they have in oAI -- if they can help the competition with their silly over-spend more the better.
- lanthissa 5mo ago
  yeah people have been talking about this for a few weeks. Spacex is the only unallocated nvidia gpu's on earth, anthropic is going through a crisis due to lack of compute. It would have been a huge black mark on the record of both if they couldn't manage to put the deal together.
  - nerdsniper 5mo ago
    > Spacex is the only unallocated nvidia gpu's on earth There are reportedly significant additional un-deployed GPU's (which cannot be allocated) sitting in boxes in warehouses at OpenAI who doesn't have facilities or power to deploy them. But that's a separate thing.
    - mudkipdev 5mo ago
      If an OpenAI employee is reading this, I'll gladly take them off you :)
  - fennecbutt 5mo ago
    Does anthropic trust spacex enough for this though.
    - gbnwl 5mo ago
      I mean yes? Considering that we're here reading the news that they've agreed to this.
    - naveen99 5mo ago
      If they trust Claude code, they can trust spacex. Safety trust tm.
metadat 5mo ago
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freedomben 5mo ago
See also for the Anthropic blog/announcment on this, which includes higher usage limits for Claude: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48037986 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48037986
ChrisArchitect 5mo ago
More discussion on associated Anthropic post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48037986 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48037986
gizmodo59 5mo ago
where are all the claude fans who hate elon? Its very funny how ant will do anything at this point.
naveen99 5mo ago
So what’s the terafab for if spacex already has so much unused capacity ?

58 points by droidjj 5mo ago

Makes sense. Elon overestimated Grok usage and compute demands. Anthropic massively underestimated and is likely looking in every corner of the world for compute. SpaceX also wants additional revenue on the books for IPO.

dyauspitr 5mo ago
Plenty of people paying the grok $300/month fee almost exclusively to generate high quality soft porn videos. I’ve “tested” it myself during a trial period and boy is it good.
- general1465 5mo ago
  So the problem is not enough gooners are willing to pay.
  - brianwawok 5mo ago
    It’s the venn diagram of gooners and people with $300 of disposable income.
gizajob 5mo ago
Maybe this is how xAI gets to that outlandish valuation included in the IPO numbers.
serf 5mo ago
... well and they want to twist whatever knives they have in oAI -- if they can help the competition with their silly over-spend more the better.
lanthissa 5mo ago
yeah people have been talking about this for a few weeks. Spacex is the only unallocated nvidia gpu's on earth, anthropic is going through a crisis due to lack of compute. It would have been a huge black mark on the record of both if they couldn't manage to put the deal together.
- nerdsniper 5mo ago
  > Spacex is the only unallocated nvidia gpu's on earth There are reportedly significant additional un-deployed GPU's (which cannot be allocated) sitting in boxes in warehouses at OpenAI who doesn't have facilities or power to deploy them. But that's a separate thing.
  - mudkipdev 5mo ago
    If an OpenAI employee is reading this, I'll gladly take them off you :)
- fennecbutt 5mo ago
  Does anthropic trust spacex enough for this though.
  - gbnwl 5mo ago
    I mean yes? Considering that we're here reading the news that they've agreed to this.
  - naveen99 5mo ago
    If they trust Claude code, they can trust spacex. Safety trust tm.

metadat 5mo ago

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freedomben 5mo ago

See also for the Anthropic blog/announcment on this, which includes higher usage limits for Claude: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48037986 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48037986

ChrisArchitect 5mo ago

More discussion on associated Anthropic post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48037986 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48037986

gizmodo59 5mo ago

where are all the claude fans who hate elon? Its very funny how ant will do anything at this point.

naveen99 5mo ago

So what’s the terafab for if spacex already has so much unused capacity ?