AI BriefingAnthropic Expands SpaceX Partnership
Key point
Anthropic raised Claude Code and API limits through expanded compute collaboration with SpaceX.
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Through a partnership with SpaceX, Anthropic has significantly increased its compute capacity and raised Claude usage limits and API caps.
- Claude Code: Doubled the 5-hour rate limit for Pro, Max, Team, and seat-based Enterprise plans
- Peak-hour limits: Removed the peak-hours limit reduction for Pro/Max accounts
- Claude Opus API: Substantially raised rate limits
By using SpaceX's entire Colossus 1 data center compute capacity, Anthropic will secure over 300MW and more than 220,000 NVIDIA GPUs within a month. Anthropic stated that this additional capacity directly improves the felt performance and availability for Claude Pro and Max subscribers.
This announcement follows recent large-scale compute deals.
- Amazon: Contract for up to 5GW, with about 1GW more to be added by the end of 2026
- Google/Broadcom: 5GW contract, operational from 2027
- Microsoft/NVIDIA: $30 billion worth of Azure capacity
- Fluidstack: $50 billion investment in US AI infrastructure
Anthropic said it will continue securing additional capacity by using AWS Trainium, Google TPUs, and NVIDIA GPUs in parallel. It is also expanding inference in Asia and Europe to meet data residency and regulatory requirements, and is exploring the long-term possibility of developing orbital AI compute with SpaceX.
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