{"id":241154,"date":"2026-05-06T21:44:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-07T01:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/06\/spacex-will-give-anthropic-access-to-its-colossus-super-computer\/"},"modified":"2026-05-07T15:05:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-07T19:05:10","slug":"spacex-will-give-anthropic-access-to-its-colossus-super-computer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/06\/spacex-will-give-anthropic-access-to-its-colossus-super-computer\/","title":{"rendered":"SpaceX will give Anthropic access to its \u2018Colossus\u2019 super computer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com.au\/news\/innovation\/musks-spacex-will-give-anthropic-access-to-its-colossus-super-computer-for-ai-training\/\">SpaceX will give Anthropic access to its \u2018Colossus\u2019 super computer<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com.au\/news\/innovation\/musks-spacex-will-give-anthropic-access-to-its-colossus-super-computer-for-ai-training\/\">https:\/\/www.forbes.com.au\/news\/innovation\/musks-spacex-will-give-anthropic-access-to-its-colossus-super-computer-for-ai-training\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-05-06 21:44:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.forbes.com.au\">www.forbes.com.au<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tPublished on\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\tMay 7, 2026\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<h5 class=\"wp-block-heading topline-heading\" id=\"h-anthropic-will-gain-access-to-spacex-s-multi-billion-dollar-supercomputer-known-as-colossus-according-to-an-announcement-striking-a-deal-that-could-also-result-in-the-two-firms-partnering-up-on-the-development-of-space-based-ai-data-centers\">Anthropic will gain access to SpaceX\u2019s multi-billion dollar supercomputer known as \u201cColossus,\u201d according to an announcement, striking a deal that could also result in the two firms partnering up on the development of space-based AI data centers.<\/h5>\n<p>The deal was announced Wednesday. (Photo by Samuel Boivin\/NurPhoto via Getty Images)<\/p>\n<h5 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-key-facts\">Key Facts<\/h5>\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Under the agreement, Anthropic will use the supercomputer\u2019s computing power to \u201cdirectly improve capacity for Claude Pro and Claude Max subscribers.\u201d<\/li>\n<li>Like using other AI models, those who use Claude\u2019s premium versions are subject to rate limits, which are mechanisms put in place to cap the number of requests made by a user.<\/li>\n<li>With access to SpaceX\u2019s supercomputer, which is powered by more than 220,000 Nvidia graphics cards and high-end accelerators to handle high workloads, Anthropic can give its premium Claude users higher rate limits and faster response times.<\/li>\n<li>The improvements for Claude premium users were effective Wednesday, according to Anthropic, which\u00a0listed three changes\u00a0that included doubling of the five-hour rate limits for Claude Code\u2019s premium users.<\/li>\n<li>Anthropic\u2019s agreement with SpaceX strengthens its supply chain, as the company already has compute agreements with\u00a0Amazon Web Services\u00a0and\u00a0Google\u00a0worth hundreds of billions of dollars.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h5 class=\"wp-block-heading subhead-embed color-accent bg-base font-accent font-size text-align\" id=\"h-what-to-watch-for\">What to watch for<\/h5>\n<p>Anthropic also showed interest in teaming up with SpaceX to develop \u201cmultiple gigawatts of orbital AI compute capacity\u201d as part of the agreement. Space, specifically Earth\u2019s orbit, is being eyed by AI companies as the next home for the data centers needed to develop and power artificial intelligence\u2014with SpaceX noting in its Wednesday announcement the computing power needed to train the next generation of AI is \u201coutpacing what terrestrial power, land, and cooling can deliver on the timelines that&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com.au\/news\/innovation\/musks-spacex-will-give-anthropic-access-to-its-colossus-super-computer-for-ai-training\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SpaceX will give Anthropic access to its \u2018Colossus\u2019 super computer https:\/\/www.forbes.com.au\/news\/innovation\/musks-spacex-will-give-anthropic-access-to-its-colossus-super-computer-for-ai-training\/ Publish Date: 2026-05-06 21:44:00&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":241155,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.forbes.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/3.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[20],"class_list":["post-241154","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificial-intelligence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241154"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=241154"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241154\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":241156,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241154\/revisions\/241156"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/241155"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=241154"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=241154"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=241154"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}