Anthropic’s new, powerful allies: Elon Musk and SpaceX

About this episode

This episode discusses Anthropic's new computing deal with SpaceX and other tech news.

On this week’s “Marketplace Tech Bytes: Week in Review,” we’ll discuss why Apple is paying a $250 million settlement over its Apple Intelligence tool and its capabilities. Plus, GameStop makes a surprising buyout offer for eBay. But first up: Anthropic, maker of the chatbot Claude, announced a new computing deal this week with SpaceX and its AI division, xAI. Anthropic will get access to SpaceX’s Colossus One data center, which will let the company increase how much its customers can use Claude. The deal comes as SpaceX CEO Elon Musk is facing off in federal court against OpenAI and its CEO Sam Altman. Marketplace’s Stephanie Hughes spoke about all this with Caroline O’Donovan, AI and technology senior reporter at The San Francisco Standard, who noted that Anthropic's leaders talked about the need for more computing power at their developer conference this week. Check out our YouTube page to watch more episodes of “Tech Bytes.”

People in this episode

Host: Stephanie Hughes

Guest: Caroline O’Donovan

Topics covered

• AI
• technology
• business
• law
• settlements
• data centers

Keywords

• Anthropic
• SpaceX
• Elon Musk
• AI
• Claude
• settlement
• GameStop
• eBay

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: SpaceX, Anthropic, OpenAI, Apple, GameStop, eBay, xAI

Products: Claude

Places: San Francisco, Colossus One

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