By Surbhi Jain
Publication Date: 2026-05-09 03:31:00
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Elon Musk once called Anthropic‘s Claude AI “misanthropic and evil.” Now he is leasing the company one of the largest pools of Nvidia Corp AI compute on Earth.
Anthropic has reportedly secured access to SpaceX/xAI‘s Colossus 1 supercomputer in Memphis, a massive AI cluster built around roughly 220,000 Nvidia GPUs. The move marks one of the strangest turns yet in the AI arms race — not because rivals are working together, but because the industry’s compute shortage is starting to override almost everything else.
That includes public feuds.
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For months, frontier AI companies have been scrambling for Nvidia capacity as training and inference costs continue exploding higher. Anthropic may be one of the clearest examples.
The Claude maker has rapidly scaled its enterprise and coding products, forcing the company deeper into what is becoming AI’s defining bottleneck: compute access. And increasingly, the companies controlling large Nvidia clusters are starting to look just as important as the companies building the models themselves.
That is where Musk enters the story.
Despite previously attacking Claude publicly, Musk reportedly approved the deal after meetings with Anthropic leadership, effectively turning his AI infrastructure empire into a supplier for one of the industry’s fastest-growing…
