GoKawiilAnthropic on Wednesday announced a deal with Elon Musk's SpaceX to use all of the compute capacity at his company's Colossus 1 data center in Memphis, Tennessee.
As part of the agreement, Anthropic will get access to more than 300 megawatts of compute capacity, and it also "expressed interest" in working with SpaceX to develop multiple gigawatts of compute capacity in space. Anthropic said the deal will directly improve capacity for its paid Claude Pro and Claude Max subscribers.
The deal comes after Musk, who merged SpaceX with his competing AI startup, xAI, this year, has repeatedly criticized Anthropic because of its clash with the U.S. government. Musk has said Anthropic is "doomed to become the opposite of its name," which would be misanthropic, and has asked if there's a "more hypocritical company than Anthropic."
"Anthropic hates Western Civilization," Musk wrote in February.
But on Wednesday, Musk changed his tune. He said in a post on X that he spent a lot of time with senior members of the Anthropic team over the last week, and that he was "impressed."
"Everyone I met was highly competent and cared a great deal about doing the right thing. No one set off my evil detector," Musk wrote. "So long as they engage in critical self-examination, Claude will probably be good."
Musk also spent much of the last week in federal court in Oakland, California, where he testified over the course of three days in the trial in his lawsuit against OpenAI and its CEO, Sam Altman.