Elon Musk Admits Losing AI Beef, Now Besties with Claude’s Crew
KEY POINTS
- •Elon Musk reversed his harsh early 2026 criticism of Anthropic and praised their AI models in July.
- •In May, Anthropic gained access to over 220,000 Nvidia GPUs from SpaceX’s Colossus 1 data center via a $1.25 billion/month deal.
- •Despite new camaraderie, Musk reminded that SpaceXAI is still young and kept a competitive eye on the AI race’s future.
In a soap opera twist worthy of a Netflix AI special, Elon Musk—who famously called Anthropic ‘smug, sanctimonious, and hypocritical’ and claimed their fate was ‘misanthropic’—has done a full 180. By May 2026, he not only called them the leaders in AI with stellar models like Mythos/Fable but also inked a $1.25 billion per month, multi-year GPU lease deal giving Anthropic access to SpaceX’s Colossus 1 datacenter’s 220,000 Nvidia GPUs. Musk chuckled last January that Anthropic ‘hates Western Civilization’ and ‘was never set to win,’ yet here he is in July praising their competence and promising not to murder their compute pipeline ‘because that’s not my style.’ Rivals? Sure. Arch-enemies? Nah, just billion-dollar frenemies with threats replaced by mutual respect... and a shared obsession with GPU firepower.
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(1 of 3)Musk went from calling Anthropic ‘woke hypocrites’ to signing them a $1.25B/month GPU hookup while swearing not to ‘kill’ them. Dog-eat-data-center, anyone?
If Musk’s mood swings were AI models, they’d ironically call it ‘Claude 5’: unpredictable but weirdly effective.
Elon’s bromance timeline: January insult tour, May billion-dollar GPU booty call, July ‘you’re too cool to kill.’
Source: Businessinsider | Published: 7/9/2026 | Author: Lloyd Lee
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