Colossus

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 …

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

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 …

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 …

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

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