Elon Musk says Anthropic's Colossus deal is “a 180 day lease with 90 day notice”; SpaceX's S-1 said Anthropic “agreed to pay a monthly fee through May 2029”
TechCrunch Russell Brandom
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Discussion
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@elonmusk
Elon Musk
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@johntinsman SpaceX has not committed to leasing Colossus for years, although it's possible that may be what happens. This is a 180 day lease with 90 day notice mutual cancellation thereafter. The short term was our request, not Anthropic's. We won't leave them hanging and wil…
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@mikeisaac
Rat King
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really funny to contradict your contractual agreements with partners in the replies to some twitter guy poppin off https://techcrunch.com/... [image]
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@edludlow
Ed Ludlow
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SpaceX S-1: “... in May 2026, we entered into Cloud Services Agreements with Anthropic PBC ("Anthropic"), an AI research and development public benefit corporation, with respect to access to compute capacity across COLOSSUS and COLOSSUS II. Pursuant to these agreements, the
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@stucowan
Stu Cowan
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Hmmmmm, who to believe?
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@tcarmody
Tim Carmody
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I suspect for their own good, the people who actually do work at SpaceX keep Elon as far away from the real contracts as possible [embedded post]
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@okane.fyi
Sean O'Kane
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Seems bad that we're at a place where SpaceX's IPO filing, written by lawyers, says one thing very concretely, and the CEO is out here saying something completely contradictory — this is not surprising but it still seems bad — techcrunch.com/2026/05/28/h...