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SpaceX handed Anthropic the entire Colossus 1 datacenter — 300+ MW and over 220,000 GPUs — while shutting down xAI as a separate company. Musk vouched for the Claude team after a week onsite, noting “no one set off my evil detector.”

Anthropic grew 80x annualized in the first quarter against a planned 10x. Naive extrapolation has it absorbing all global GDP in 21 months.

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