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Anthropic experiences rapid growth and partners with Musk's data center for infrastructure support
May 8, 2026
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Anthropic's revenue surged 80-fold in a quarter, reaching an annualized $30 billion, driven by corporate clients like Uber and Netflix. To manage this explosive growth, the company has partnered with Elon Musk's xAI to rent data center capacity, allowing for increased usage limits for its AI model, Claude Code.
- Anthropic's CEO, Dario Amodei, reported an unexpected 80-fold growth in revenue and usage in the first quarter, leading to infrastructure challenges.
- The company's annualized revenue has reached $30 billion, a three-fold increase from the previous year, largely due to corporate clients utilizing Claude Code.
- Users have expressed dissatisfaction with Claude Code's performance and strict usage limits, leading to some cancellations of subscriptions.
- Anthropic has signed a deal to rent compute capacity from Musk's xAI, gaining access to 220,000 NVIDIA GPUs and 300 megawatts of compute power.
- The partnership allows Anthropic to double usage limits for various plans and eliminate peak hour reductions.
- Anthropic has previously secured additional compute capacity through agreements with Google, Broadcom, and Amazon Web Services.
- Musk's xAI will now operate as the AI division of SpaceXAI, which is preparing for an IPO aiming to raise between $1.75 and $2 trillion.
- Despite past criticisms from Musk, Anthropic is exploring collaboration on developing orbital data centers for enhanced computing capabilities.
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