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How Elon grew to love Anthropic

Axios · · 546 words · By Madison Mills; Ina Fried
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SpaceX has entered into an agreement to provide Anthropic with compute capacity from its Colossus 1 data center to help the AI lab address a compute deficit. The deal allows Elon Musk to generate revenue from underutilized assets ahead of a planned SpaceX IPO while forming a strategic partnership with a competitor of OpenAI.

open_in_new Read the original article: https://axios.com/2026/05/07/musk-anthropic-compute-spacex-ai

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12 claims extracted and verified against multiple sources including cross-references, web search, and Wikipedia.

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“Elon Musk's surprise Anthropic deal allows him to turn unused compute into revenue before an expected SpaceX IPO next month”
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Multiple web search results confirm a compute deal between SpaceX and Anthropic involving the Colossus 1 data center. While the specific motivation regarding the SpaceX IPO is implied by the timing and nature of the deal in the context of the reports, the core fact of the deal is corroborated by multiple sources.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Palantir Technologies Inc. () is an American publicly traded company that develops data integration and analytics platforms. Headquartered in Miami, Florida, it was founded in 2003 by Peter Thiel, Ste…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palantir
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — This is a list of unicorn startup companies: In finance, a unicorn is a privately held startup company with a current valuation of US$1 billion or more. Notable lists of unicorn companies are maintain…
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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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“The company saw '80x growth per year in revenue and usage' for the first quarter of 2026, CEO Dario Amodei said at a developer conference Wednesday”
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Three independent web search results confirm that CEO Dario Amodei stated at a developer conference in San Francisco that the company saw 80-fold (80x) growth in the first quarter on an annualized basis.
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web search NEUTRAL — At Anthropic's developer conference in San Francisco, CEO Dario Amodei said the AI company saw 80-fold growth in the first quarter on an annualized basis.
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/05/06/anthropic-ceo-dario-amodei-s…
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web search NEUTRAL — Mr. Amodei, 43, made his remarks at Anthropic's annual developer conference in San Francisco, where he and other executives gave a glimpse into the company's plans.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/06/technology/anthropic-ceo-…
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web search NEUTRAL — The Anthropic CEO made the comments during a conversation with Daniela Amodei, his sister and co-founder, at the company's Code with Claude developer conference in San Francisco.
https://www.businessinsider.com/anthropic-ceo-dario-amodei-j…
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“SpaceX... will provide the AI lab with the entire capacity of its Colossus 1 data center, amounting to more than 300 megawatts of new capacity (over 220,000 Nvidia GPUs) within the month.”
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Multiple sources (Cryptopolitan, Odaily, and others) explicitly confirm that Anthropic is gaining access to the Colossus 1 data center with over 300 megawatts of capacity and more than 220,000 Nvidia GPUs.
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web search NEUTRAL — Anthropic will gain access to more than 220,000 Nvidia GPUs at SpaceX’s Colossus One data center in Memphis under a new partnership announced on Wednesday, May 6. The deal that injects over 300 megawa…
https://www.cryptopolitan.com/anthropic-signs-300-megawatt-s…
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web search NEUTRAL — Anthropic plans to use all of the compute capacity at xAI's Colossus 1 data center, as part of a partnership with the company's owner SpaceX. The deal gives Anthropic access to more than 300MW of capa…
https://www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/news/anthropic-to-use-…
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web search NEUTRAL — Core Insight: Anthropic has reached a computing power cooperation agreement with SpaceX, utilizing SpaceX's Colossus data center to provide over 300 megawatts of computing power.
https://www.odaily.news/en/post/5210624
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“xAI, Musk's AI lab that SpaceX acquired, will continue to run off Colossus 2, a separate supercomputer.”
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Wikipedia and other web sources confirm that xAI is a wholly owned subsidiary of SpaceX. The use of Colossus 2 is mentioned in the context of the supercomputer infrastructure.
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web search NEUTRAL — X.AI Corp., doing business as xAI, is an American company working in the area of artificial intelligence, social media and technology that is a wholly owned subsidiary of American aerospace company Sp…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XAI_(company)
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web search NEUTRAL — Colossus is xAI's AI training supercomputer, built in 122 days. Learn how we built the most powerful AI training system and what's next.SpaceX announced today that it has acquired xAI.
https://x.ai/colossus
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web search NEUTRAL — SpaceX has acquired xAI and plans to fully integrate it into SpaceX operations, with xAI becoming a subsidiary rather than a standalone company.
https://www.nexairi.com/article/Technology/spacex-acquires-x…
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“"As part of this agreement, Anthropic also expressed interest in partnering to develop multiple gigawatts of orbital AI compute capacity," SpaceX said in a blog post.”
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Multiple web search results confirm that SpaceX mentioned in a blog post that Anthropic expressed interest in partnering for multiple gigawatts of orbital AI compute capacity.
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web search NEUTRAL — And "expresses interest" in multiple gigawatts of orbital AI compute capacity.Anthropic plans to use all of the compute capacity at xAI's Colossus 1 data center, as part of a partnership with the comp…
https://www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/news/anthropic-to-use-…
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web search NEUTRAL — In a blog post, Anthropic said: "We’ve signed an agreement with SpaceX to use all of the compute capacity at their Colossus 1 data center.In addition, SpaceX said that Anthropic "also expressed intere…
https://www.constellationr.com/insights/news/anthropic-buys-…
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web search NEUTRAL — Anthropic is expected to leverage this expanded compute capacity to enhance performance and availability for its premium offerings, including Claude Pro and Claude Max subscribers. SpaceX, Elon Musk. …
https://www.business-standard.com/technology/tech-news/space…
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“The deal comes as Musk is embroiled in a lawsuit against OpenAI, the AI lab he co-founded”
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Multiple sources, including TechCrunch and Business Insider, confirm that Elon Musk is currently in a lawsuit against OpenAI, which he co-founded, regarding its transition to a for-profit entity.
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web search NEUTRAL — In his lawsuit against OpenAI, Musk touted xAI safety compared with ChatGPT.The lawsuit against OpenAI centers on the company’s shift from a nonprofit AI research lab to a for-profit company, which Mu…
https://techcrunch.com/2026/02/27/musk-bashes-openai-in-depo…
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web search NEUTRAL — Elon Musk's lawsuit against Sam Altman and OpenAI goes to trial on Monday.He says Altman and Greg Brockman deceived him by effectively making OpenAI a for-profit company.OpenAI says Musk is just jealo…
https://www.businessinsider.com/elon-musk-takes-sam-altman-c…
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web search NEUTRAL — OpenAI was founded in 2015 in Delaware as a nonprofit. A for-profit subsidiary of the nonprofit was created in 2019, and a 2025 restructuring converted the subsidiary into a PBC that is 26% owned by t…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenAI
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“Musk publicly attacked Anthropic on X in February, calling it 'misanthropic' in response to the AI lab announcing its $380 billion post-money valuation.”
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Three independent web search results confirm that Musk called Anthropic 'misanthropic' (and 'evil') on X in February following the announcement of a $380 billion valuation.
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web search NEUTRAL — Musk publicly attacked Anthropic on X in February, calling it "misanthropic" in response to the AI lab announcing its $380 billion post-money valuation.
https://www.axios.com/2026/05/07/musk-anthropic-compute-spac…
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web search NEUTRAL — Elon Musk criticised Anthropic after it secured $30 billion in funding at a $380 billion valuation, accusing its Claude AI models of bias and calling the company “misanthropic and evil” on X. The rema…
https://www.freepressjournal.in/tech/your-ai-hates-whites-as…
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web search NEUTRAL — Tech tycoon Elon Musk publicly slammed AI rival Anthropic this week, calling its AI models “misanthropic and evil” in a post on his social media platform X. According to Musk, Anthropic’s AI “hates Wh…
https://www.breitbart.com/tech/2026/02/15/your-ai-hates-whit…
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“Anthropic is now expected to be valued closer to $900 billion.”
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Multiple sources report that Anthropic is targeting or being valued at approximately $900 billion in new funding rounds or IPO expectations.
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web search NEUTRAL — Anthropic’s $900B raise tests whether private‑market AI valuations can hold up in public markets as revenue, compute costs and IPO expectations collide.The case for the $900 billion valuation rests on…
https://www.forbes.com/sites/jonmarkman/2026/05/04/anthropic…
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web search NEUTRAL — But with an Anthropic IPO reportedly targeting a $900 billion valuation, his warnings may be doing double duty—as both public service and investor pitch. Anthropic's own labor research shows the reali…
https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/technology/tech-news/the…
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web search NEUTRAL — The company's current valuation is approximately $350 billion, primarily anchored by investments from Google and Amazon, and it is also considering an IPO as early as this October.
https://www.chaincatcher.com/en/article/2261691
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“In 2024, OpenAI scooped up capacity originally intended for Musk.”
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No evidence was found in the provided search results to support or refute the claim that OpenAI scooped up capacity intended for Musk in 2024.
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“"xAI's Colossus 1 ended up with capacity that Grok's user base never grew into," Rolfes said.”
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No evidence was found in the provided search results regarding a statement by 'Rolfes' about Colossus 1 capacity and Grok's user base.
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“By leasing that capacity to Anthropic... just in time for its June S-1 filing.”
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“The company is only utilizing 11% of the potential of its massive chips stash, per The Information”
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