FILE PHOTO: Anthropic logo is seen in this illustration taken May 20, 2024.

Elon Musk's SpaceX has signed a deal giving Anthropic access to Colossus 1, a massive AI supercomputer. This partnership brings together two key players in the artificial intelligence race.

Anthropic plans to use the additional computing power to expand capacity for its Claude Pro and Claude Max AI assistants. The company has also shown interest in collaborating with SpaceX to develop multiple gigawatts of orbital AI computing capacity.