Anthropic's SpaceX deal helps it address a severe compute deficit and comes amid Elon Musk's OpenAI lawsuit; Grok never grew to utilize xAI's Colossus 1 (Axios)
Anthropic signs a compute deal with SpaceX to address its GPU/infrastructure deficit, positioning itself amid the ongoing Musk-OpenAI lawsuit and xAI's underutilized Colossus cluster.
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<span style="font-size: 1.3em;"><b><a href="https://www.axios.com/2026/05/07/musk-anthropic-compute-spacex-ai">Anthropic's SpaceX deal helps it address a severe compute deficit and comes amid Elon Musk's OpenAI lawsuit; Grok never grew to utilize xAI's Colossus 1</a></b></span> — Elon Musk's surprise Anthropic deal allows him to accomplish two things at once: turn unused compute into revenue before an expected … </p>
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