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Elon Just Gave Claude 220,000 H100s: Anthropic’s Compute Surge, Mythos, and What Changes for BusinessThe script explains how Anthropic’s recent compute constraints behind Claude—rate limits, peak-hour slowdowns, and interruptions—are being rapidly eased after Anthropic signed a live deal to use SpaceX’s Colossus-1 GPU cluster in Memphis (over 300 MW and 220,000 NVIDIA H100s). As a result, Anthropic doubled Claude Code five-hour rate limits for paid plans, removed peak-hour reductions, and significantly increased Opus API rate limits. It argues Elon Musk’s motivation is largely economic (idle GPUs after xAI moved training to Colossus-2) and strategic against OpenAI. The script also covers Anthropic’s broader infrastructure deals (Amazon, Google/Broadcom, Microsoft/NVIDIA, Fluid Stack, and reported Google Cloud spend), enterprise ambitions, and the unreleased Mythos model’s security-testing capabilities, plus related government controversy and implications for business workflows and AI coding competition (including Cursor).⁠00:00⁠ Elon Powers Claude⁠00:43⁠ Claude Compute Crunch⁠01:47⁠ SpaceX Colossus Deal⁠03:45⁠ Why Elon Helped⁠05:00⁠ Business Impact Boost⁠06:54⁠ Mythos Security Leap⁠08:48⁠ What It Means Now⁠10:11⁠ Cursor And GPU Wars⁠11:24⁠ Stop Waiting Start Building⁠12:57⁠ Final Takeaways