Musk Calls Anthropic AI Leader After $1.25 Billion-a-Month SpaceX Compute Deal
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Updated · Business Insider · Jul 9
Musk Calls Anthropic AI Leader After $1.25 Billion-a-Month SpaceX Compute Deal
3 articles · Updated · Business Insider · Jul 9
Summary
Elon Musk said Thursday he was "clearly wrong about Anthropic," calling the company the current AI leader and praising its Mythos and Fable models in an X post.
The reversal follows a May compute agreement giving Anthropic access to more than 300 megawatts at SpaceX's Colossus 1 data center—over 220,000 Nvidia GPUs—for $1.25 billion a month through May 2029.
Musk also said he would never cut Anthropic off in a way that badly hurt it, even as a competitor, after an X user suggested SpaceX could cripple the startup by denying compute.
The shift is stark because Musk had repeatedly attacked Anthropic for months, calling it "hypocritical," "woke" and unlikely to win the AI race before the partnership.
That warmer tone underscores how critical compute supply has become in AI, turning fierce model rivals into major infrastructure customers and partners.