Could 28 (Reuters) – SpaceX CEO Elon Musk mentioned on Thursday the IPO-bound firm had solely agreed to lease its Colossus AI coaching knowledge middle clusters to Anthropic for six months, although he added it was “attainable” the association may lengthen for a number of years.
“SpaceX has not dedicated to leasing Colossus for years, though it is attainable that could be what occurs,” Musk mentioned in a publish on X.
Earlier this 12 months, SpaceX inked offers for Anthropic to pay it $1.25 billion a month to make use of compute capability from its Colossus and Colossus II knowledge middle clusters in Memphis, Tennessee by means of Could 2029.
SpaceX, which filed for IPO final week, mentioned within the regulatory submitting that each firms may terminate the agreements with a 90-day discover. The submitting didn’t make any point out of the six-month lease.
SpaceX and Anthropic didn’t instantly reply to a Reuters request for remark outdoors common enterprise hours.
The settlement is a 180-day lease with a mutual 90-day cancellation discover thereafter, Musk mentioned.
“The brief time period was our request, not Anthropic’s,” he mentioned on X, referring to the Colossus deal.
“We can’t go away them hanging and will present an inexpensive off-ramp, but when compute will get tremendous tight I mentioned we would want it again at some level,” the billionaire added.
Final week, Musk posted on X that SpaceX was in discussions with different firms about “providing AI compute as a service at vital scale.”
SpaceX’s AI section misplaced about $2.5 billion from operations within the March quarter, on section income of $818 million, based on its IPO submitting.
(Reporting by Gnaneshwar Rajan in Bengaluru; Modifying by Sherry Jacob-Phillips)