SpaceX backs Anthropic with data centre deal amidst Musk’s OpenAI lawsuit
Deal gives IPO-bound SpaceX a marquee customer, while helping Anthropic ease capacity constraints.
AI Summary
SpaceX has partnered with Anthropic to provide computing resources from its Colossus 1 data centre in Memphis, Tennessee, offering 300 megawatts of capacity with over 220,000 Nvidia processors to support Anthropic's Claude AI assistants. The deal eases Anthropic's capacity constraints and provides SpaceX with a marquee customer ahead of its IPO, while the companies have also expressed interest in developing space-based orbital data centres together. Anthropic used the announcement to unveil new features including "dreaming," a tool that allows AI systems to review work and learn patterns, alongside expanded capacity for its Claude services.