Overview
- Anthropic, which announced the SpaceX pact Wednesday at its Code with Claude event, will get Colossus 1’s full capacity within a month.
- The Memphis facility provides more than 300 megawatts of power and access to over 220,000 Nvidia GPUs, with some inference work shifting there in the coming days.
- Anthropic raised limits for paying customers by doubling Claude Code’s five-hour quotas, removing peak-hour caps for Pro and Max, and lifting Opus API rates.
- CEO Dario Amodei said Q1 revenue and usage ran about 80 times higher than a year ago, which strained the company’s compute supply.
- The Information reported Anthropic agreed to spend about $200 billion on Google Cloud over five years, with larger multi-vendor capacity slated to arrive in 2026 and 2027.