Elon Musk’s SpaceX joins forces with Anthropic in AI deal ahead of blockbuster IPO

Nypost · May 06, 2026 · 673 words · By Reuters

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Elon Musk’s SpaceX joins forces with Anthropic in AI deal ahead of blockbuster IPO SpaceX said Wednesday it would lease its Colossus 1 artificial intelligence data center to Anthropic, pairing Elon Musk’s company with a previously criticized rival in a deal…

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Under the agreement, Anthropic will use the full computing power of the facility in Memphis, Tennessee, which houses more than 220,000 Nvidia processors and will give the Claude chatbot maker 300 megawatts of new capacity within a month.

Common ground

The deal gives Musk’s IPO-bound SpaceX a marquee customer as it looks to sell investors on its AI ambitions while helping Anthropic ease capacity constraints following surging demand for products such as its AI coding tool, Claude Code.

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eFinder analyzed this article and checked 13 claims against available evidence, cross-references, web search, and Wikipedia. Here is what the fact-checking layer found.

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Claim 1: “it said the tech sector represented its largest source of enterprise revenue, followed by financial institutions”

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This claim was extracted as a checkable statement from the article. eFinder labels it pending based on the available evidence and source context shown below.

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Claim 2: “SpaceX has moved its AI training efforts to Colossus 2”

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Multiple web search results confirm that xAI (a SpaceX subsidiary) has brought the 'Colossus 2' AI training cluster online, described as a gigawatt-scale facility.

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web search NEUTRAL — Colossus is a supercomputer developed by xAI. Construction began in 2024 in Memphis, Tennessee; the system became operational in July 2024. [1] It is currently believed to be the world's largest AI su…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colossus_(supercomputer)

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web search NEUTRAL — Elon Musk Elon Musk's xAI brings 1GW Colossus 2 AI training cluster online Elon Musk shared his update in a recent post on social media platform X.
https://www.teslarati.com/elon-musk-xai-brings-1gw-colossus-…

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web search NEUTRAL — XAI Colossus II is the world's first Gigawatt AI training cluster. The picture is an aerial view of the gigawatt data center.
https://www.nextbigfuture.com/2025/09/xai-colossus-2-first-g…

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Claim 3: “On Tuesday, Anthropic unveiled 10 financially focused AI agents at an event in New York”

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This claim was extracted as a checkable statement from the article. eFinder labels it pending based on the available evidence and source context shown below.

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Claim 4: “The company said it is also interested in working with SpaceX to develop multiple gigawatts of space-based orbital data centers”

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The provided evidence for this claim contains general company information and a mention of a 'Mythos' model, but does not mention space-based orbital data centers.

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web search NEUTRAL — Anthropic is an American artificial intelligence (AI) company headquartered in San Francisco. It has developed a range of large language models (LLMs) named Claude and focuses on AI safety.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthropic

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web search NEUTRAL — Feb 4, 2026 · Anthropic is an AI safety and research company that's working to build reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems.
https://www.anthropic.com/

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web search NEUTRAL — Apr 7, 2026 · Anthropic, the artificial intelligence company that recently fought the Pentagon over the use of its technology, has built a new A.I. model that it claims is too powerful to be released …
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/07/technology/anthropic-clai…

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Claim 5: “Anthropic said on Wednesday that its “dreaming” feature was available as a research preview”

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Reuters explicitly states that the 'dreaming' feature is 'Available as a research preview'.

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Claim 6: “Anthropic held a developer day in San Francisco on Wednesday, where it unveiled a new Claude AI feature called “dreaming””

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Multiple sources (Reuters and two other web search results) confirm Anthropic held a developer event in San Francisco on Wednesday where they unveiled the 'dreaming' feature for Claude Managed Agents.

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Dario Amodei (born 1983) is an American artificial intelligence (AI) researcher and entrepreneur. In 2021, he and his sister Daniela Amodei co-founded Anthropic, the company behind the large language …
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dario_Amodei

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Anthropic is an American artificial intelligence (AI) company headquartered in San Francisco. It has developed a range of large language models (LLMs) named Claude and focuses on AI safety. Anthropic …
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthropic

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Claude is a series of large language models developed by Anthropic and first released in 2023. Since Claude 3, each generation has typically been released in three sizes, from least to most capable: H…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claude_(language_model)

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Claim 7: “Anthropic said it was doubling Claude Code’s rate limits for its paid plans, removing peak-hour usage caps for Pro and Max accounts and sharply increasing the volume of requests developers can make to its Claude Opus models”

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The provided evidence for this claim consists of general company descriptions from Wikipedia and the Anthropic homepage, which do not mention specific rate limit changes or Claude Code updates.

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web search NEUTRAL — Claude is a next generation AI assistant built by Anthropic and trained to be safe, accurate, and secure to help you do your best work.
https://claude.com/

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web search NEUTRAL — Feb 4, 2026 · Anthropic is an AI safety and research company that's working to build reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems.
https://www.anthropic.com/

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Claim 8: “In a statement on X, Musk said that he made the decision to lease computing power after spending time with Anthropic leaders last week”

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The evidence provided for this claim consists of general biographies of Elon Musk and do not contain the specific statement regarding the lease decision on X.

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web search NEUTRAL — Elon Reeve Musk (/ ˈiːlɒn / EE-lon; born June 28, 1971) is a businessman and entrepreneur known for his leadership of Tesla, SpaceX, X, and xAI. Musk has been the wealthiest person in the world since …
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elon_Musk

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web search NEUTRAL — Experiential learning, outstanding teaching & mentoring, and an excellent four-year graduation rate make Elon a top-100 National University.
https://www.elon.edu/

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web search NEUTRAL — 1 day ago · Elon Musk cofounded seven companies, including electric car maker Tesla, rocket producer SpaceX and artificial intelligence startup xAI.
https://www.forbes.com/profile/elon-musk/

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Claim 9: “the facility in Memphis, Tennessee, which houses more than 220,000 Nvidia processors”

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MSN and Forbes specifically mention the facility is in Memphis, Tennessee and contains over 220,000 Nvidia GPUs/processors.

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Colossus is a supercomputer developed by xAI. Construction began in 2024 in Memphis, Tennessee; the system became operational in July 2024. It is currently believed to be the world's largest AI superc…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colossus_(supercomputer)

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The TOP500 project ranks and details the 500 most powerful non-distributed computer systems in the world. The project was started in 1993 and publishes an updated list of the supercomputers twice a ye…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TOP500

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — X.AI Corp., doing business as xAI, is an American company working in the area of artificial intelligence (AI), social media and technology that is a wholly owned subsidiary of American aerospace compa…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XAI_(company)

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Claim 10: “the comments marked a sharp shift from remarks Musk made in February, when he accused Anthropic’s AI of bias”

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No evidence was found in the provided search results to confirm or deny Musk's comments about Anthropic's bias in February.

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Claim 11: “SpaceX said Wednesday it would lease its Colossus 1 artificial intelligence data center to Anthropic”

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Three independent news sources (MSN, Forbes, and CNBC) confirm that SpaceX is leasing the Colossus 1 data center to Anthropic.

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — An AI data center is a specialized data center facility designed for the computationally intensive tasks of training and running inference for artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning models.…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AI_data_center

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — OpenAI Global, LLC is an American artificial intelligence (AI) research organization consisting of a for-profit public benefit corporation (PBC) and a nonprofit foundation, headquartered in San Franci…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenAI

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Claim 12: “Anthropic also announced wider availability for other features on Wednesday, such as one for its AI agent to break down and delegate tasks to other, specialist agents”

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Claim 13: “will give the Claude chatbot maker 300 megawatts of new capacity within a month”

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MSN reports the deal gives Anthropic more than 300 megawatts of computing power. While the 'within a month' timeframe is not explicitly in the snippets, the core capacity claim is corroborated by multiple sources.

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Anysphere, Inc., doing business as Cursor, is an American software company which develops Cursor, an AI-assisted software development service. Founded in 2022, the San Francisco-based startup achieved…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anysphere

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Grok is a generative artificial intelligence chatbot developed by xAI. It was launched in November 2023 by Elon Musk as an initiative based on the large language model (LLM) of the same name. Grok has…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grok_(chatbot)

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