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Elon Musk Confirms xAI Shuts Down, Leases 220k GPUs to Anthropic

Musk dissolves xAI, leases 220k GPUs to Anthropic. SpaceX & Anthropic ally against OpenAI.

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May 07, 2026
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On the same day, at a developer conference in San Francisco, Silicon Valley AI giant Anthropic announced it had signed a cooperation agreement with Musk’s SpaceX to secure nearly all the computing power of Musk’s Colossus 1 data center in Memphis, Tennessee — a staggering 220,000+ NVIDIA GPUs.

This is a deal that once seemed highly improbable. Yet in the face of a common adversary, even former rivals like Anthropic and SpaceX have joined forces.

After all, the enemy of my enemy is my ally.

Musk himself had just announced via X that xAI has officially been dissolved as an independent company and will be fully integrated into SpaceX’s AI team, SpaceXAI.

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