Most of the arrangements can be terminated with a 90 day notice, meaning the full payout is not guaranteed. The deal suggests a shift in priorities for Elon Musk's company, with some observers arguing that selling raw computing power is now more profitable than the firm's pursuit of artificial superintelligence.
Wednesday, October 21, 2026
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Anthropic Pledges Up to $84.5B for SpaceX Compute Doubling Previous Forecast
AI21 days ago
SpaceX has expanded its technical resources agreement with the AI developer Anthropic to include services through 2029. The total potential cost of these NVIDIA-based resources is $84.5 billion, which nearly doubles the $45 billion in potential spending SpaceX had disclosed previously. These updated terms extend an agreement reached in May that required monthly payments of $1.25 billion for a period of 3 years.
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