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Colossus

5 articles accelerating

Colossus has appeared in 5 articles since 2024-11. Coverage peaked in 2026Q2 with 4 articles. Frequently mentioned alongside Anthropic, Elon Musk, Elon Musk's, Memphis.

Articles
5
mentions
Velocity
+300.0%
growth rate
Acceleration
+3.000
velocity change
Sources
7
publications
Eight Times
Anthropic planned to grow 10x in 2026. The actual run rate is 80x — an 8x miss against its own raised forecast. The forecast miss forced a $200B Google commitme...
The Plaintiff
On January 17, Musk sued OpenAI for $134 billion over abandoned principles. The same day, the EPA ruled xAI broke federal law with unpermitted gas turbines in M...

Coverage Timeline

2026-05-29
TechCrunch 8 related

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”

2026-05-28
TechCrunch 11 related

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”

Earlier this month, xAI signed a major compute deal with Anthropic, pledging billions of dollars a month …

2026-05-08
Simon Willison's Weblog 3 related

While Anthropic will use the Colossus 1 data center, which has a really bad environmental record, xAI retains the larger Colossus 2 for its own AI training

2026-05-07
Simon Willison's Weblog 3 related

While Anthropic will use the Colossus 1 data center, which has a really bad environmental record, xAI retains the larger Colossus 2 for its own AI training

There weren't a lot of big new announcements from Anthropic at yesterday's Code w/ Claude event, but the biggest by far …

2025-11-09
Colossus 2 related

An account of working at Cursor for 60 days: a largely in-person culture, few scheduled meetings, aggressive recruiting, heavy internal product testing, more

On recruiting and culture  —  Nivi: You're listening to the Naval Podcast. X: Jim O'Shaughnessy / @jposhaughnessy : “When I asked co-founder Sualeh Asif what he's most concerned about when it comes to...

2025-05-08
Bloomberg 4 related

Memphis says xAI is using Tesla's 150MW Megapack batteries to shore up its Colossus supercomputer; xAI spent ~$230M on them from January 2024 to February 2025

Elon Musk's xAI is using Tesla Inc.'s Megapack batteries to shore up its “Colossus” supercomputer in Memphis …

2024-12-05
Financial Times 14 related

xAI plans to expand its Colossus supercomputer tenfold to incorporate 1M+ GPUs; work has already begun to increase the size of its Memphis, Tennessee facility

Facility in Memphis expected to incorporate more than 1mn GPUs as billionaire's xAI aims to catch up with rivals

2024-11-27
Wall Street Journal 10 related

Sources: Elon Musk's xAI plans to debut a consumer app as soon as December; the startup built its Colossus data center, which uses 100K Nvidia GPUs, in 122 days

The Tesla CEO is racing to make xAI, which launched after its competitors, the world's most advanced AI company

2024-11-13
The Information

Sources: execs at xAI rivals were alarmed by how fast Elon Musk set up the 100K GPU cluster Colossus; a source says Sam Altman argued with Microsoft over it

On a sunny day last month, a propeller plane made multiple passes in the air over a large industrial building surrounded … Bluesky: @niedermeyer.io . X: @sundeep and @anissagardizy8 Bluesky: E.W. Nied...

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Quarterly Coverage

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Narrative

TEXXR tracks 26 Techmeme articles mentioning Colossus, dating back to August 2020. The biggest stories include SpaceXAI signs an agreement with Anthropic to provide access to Colossus 1, and says... and xAI introduces Grok 4, trained on its Colossus supercomputer, with multimodal features,.... Frequently covered alongside SpaceX, Anthropic, Elon Musk, Colossus 2, and xAI. Coverage has shifted toward enterprise, regulation themes and away from consumer, competition.

Key Moments

2024Q4enterprise +33pts; consumer +33pts; research -100pts
2025Q3enterprise -33pts; developer +50pts; consumer -33pts
2025Q4enterprise +33pts; developer -50pts; research +33pts

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