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Higher usage limits for Claude and a compute deal with SpaceX

https://www.anthropic.com/news/higher-limits-spacex
132•meetpateltech•1h ago

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htrp•1h ago
>Higher usage limits

>The following three changes—all effective today—are aimed at improving the experience of using Claude for our most dedicated customers.

>First, we’re doubling Claude Code’s five-hour rate limits for Pro, Max, Team, and seat-based Enterprise plans.

>Second, we’re removing the peak hours limit reduction on Claude Code for Pro and Max accounts.

>Third, we’re raising our API rate limits considerably for Claude Opus models,

Looks like Elon's finally giving up on XAI and just selling the compute

JustSkyfall•59m ago
Probably a good idea in all honesty. xAI is a deeply unserious lab
cyanydeez•58m ago
There's only so much determinism you can create when you try not to filter (read CENSOR) your LLM.
throwa356262•9m ago
From a technical standpoint xAI is basically Gemini team B who were give A+ salaries to join the company.

But even then, I suspect their hands were tied in some areas because Elon had some expectations from his AI.

petercooper•34m ago
I don't know if it relates to the same data centers, but this also comes hours after several still recent Grok models were deprecated at short notice. Grok 4.1 Fast is the cheapest way to do research on X (cheaper than the X API!) and it's gone on May 15: https://docs.x.ai/developers/models - freeing up compute to sell?
swalsh•4m ago
Fuck, I loved grok 4.1, it was a really capable model for the money.

I'd run agents consuming hundreds of millions of tokens for less than a hundred dollars.

peder•23m ago
> Looks like Elon's finally giving up on XAI and just selling the compute

I don't think that's certain yet, but I do think that the open-source models like Gemma and Qwen are getting so good so fast that even Anthropic has real risk around the long-term value of their models and tooling.

Basically, if I'm Anthropic or xAI, I try to get revenue whenever and wherever possible and see what sticks. There's no value in playing for monopolistic control when everything is so volatile.

swalsh•7m ago
There's always money in the giggawatt datacenter
kingstnap•13m ago
The details are secret. It very well could be wasted GPU time but Anthropic could have made a killer offering as well.

I'm just speculating, but a particularly killer offering Elon wouldnt be able to refuse would be if Anthropic agreed to give them some training data / technology.

swalsh•6m ago
Billions in revenue just before your IPO isn't a bad deal either.
Philpax•57m ago
Well, this sucks :/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colossus_(supercomputer)#Envir...

thrownthatway•36m ago
Why?
chainwax•30m ago
I think he's referring to the fact that Colossus is powered by fossil fuels.
xienze•27m ago
And now they're partnering with Elon the Nazi! Must be quite the moral crisis for all the people who flocked to Anthropic because Dario told Orange Man "no" that one time.

Edit: to the person who responded, I've been hit with the HN passive-aggressive "you're posting too fast" error. But as to your question:

I don't personally care about all the controversy surrounding Musk. But you must be living under a rock if you aren't aware that the left considers Musk right up there with Hitler these days. Primarily for aligning himself with Trump, but there's also this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elon_Musk_salute_controversy

thrownthatway•17m ago
What makes you think Elon is a Nazi.

Provide specific examples.

thrownthatway•16m ago
What’s wrong with burning fossil fuels for electricity?
kfrzcode•9m ago
[delayed]
quinncom•35m ago
One of the reasons I refuse to use xAI’s models is because of the outsized negative environmental impacts of the methane gas turbines.

Now I have to avoid Claude too.

cbg0•53m ago
They're doubling the five hour limits, but no mention about the weekly limit. So overall it's the same maximum usage, right?
joncik91•32m ago
Some get the reset, some don't it seems :(
adriand•24m ago
I think so, but that's also really great because I frequently run into the five hour caps, but very rarely use my entire weekly allotment. There are lots of situations where I do things like write the plan for all the work that has to get done, and then set a reminder to execute the plan after I get home, when I'm done making dinner (because e.g. my five hour cap ends at 6pm). Higher caps for the five hour period is a lot more convenient.
minimaxir•53m ago
> First, we’re doubling Claude Code’s five-hour rate limits for Pro, Max, Team, and seat-based Enterprise plans.

The fine-print-omission appears to be that weekly limits are not doubled. The progressive 5-hour rate limit shrinking was indeed an efficiency blocker that finally convinced me to cancel, but being only able to get 4 full sessions a week as opposed to 8 doesn't compell me to resubscribe.

SilverElfin•50m ago
> As part of this agreement, we have also expressed interest in partnering with SpaceX to develop multiple gigawatts of orbital AI compute capacity.

Disgusting. For an allegedly not evil company, they’re very willing to pollute our night skies as well as partner up with a CEO who has been fanning the flames of extremism (particularly the emboldened racists / supremacists of the far right).

bigyabai•44m ago
"HN pretends that companies have morals: Part 48,037,986"
slopinthebag•27m ago
Counterpoint: Valve

Which is kind of like the exception that proves the rule hahaha

bigyabai•26m ago
Valve isn't moral, they're just privately owned. CS cases have given them enough fuck-you money to rehabilitate their image in any way they see fit.
minimaxir•21m ago
You haven't been following the discourse around a) how Steam handles GenAI disclosures and b) how Steam handles forum/review moderation.

People haven't been saying "GabeN can do no wrong" for awhile.

slopinthebag•10m ago
I was motivated to post this because I was just reading a thread where many users were praising Valve and GabeN for how their company is run, but I'm curious to read more about A & B.
richwater•39m ago
> pollute our night skies

This is not a serious argument.

josefresco•31m ago
It is very much a valid argument. SpaceX has been working on this issue for years.

https://theconversation.com/a-million-new-spacex-satellites-...

FTA: "SpaceX has done a lot of engineering work to make its Starlink satellites fainter. They are still too bright for research astronomy, but thanks to new coatings, their brightness has not increased dramatically even as SpaceX has launched larger and larger satellites."

SilverElfin•10m ago
Of course it’s a serious argument. Anyone using telescopes or doing Astro photography now sees Starlink satellites leaving trails all over the place. And that’s with a small number compared to the 1 million satellites they are proposing. It’s a public resource that a private company is stealing from all of us.
woah•34m ago
Once they send the cooling water up into orbit, it's gone for good
morpheos137•27m ago
orbital data center == scam company. if you don't understand physics or economics why should i trust you in simpler things. if you do understand are are lying why should i trust you. anthropic and their holier than though SV brand is cooked.
noworriesnate•20m ago
I doubt it'll ever happen because heat dissipation will be a big problem, but this is likely in response to the proliferation of data centers. I would rather have data centers in space than convert countryside to concrete and metal jungles.
treme•19m ago
CEO that accelerated eletric car industry by 10 years

CEO that accelerated space industry by 10+ years

CEO that accelerated HCI industry by 10 years

etchalon•17m ago
A person can do good and bad things.
SilverElfin•7m ago
I’m sure that’ll comfort all the minorities affected by the rampant amplification of extremists on Twitter. I don’t disagree those are big achievements but also they’re irrelevant to those who feel the impact of Musk’s own extremism, and their lives would be unchanged if none of the Musk companies existed. If you’re unaffected by racism then it’s going to feel easy to only look at the positives of Musk.
athrow•49m ago
Anthropic taketh and Anthropic giveth.
stavros•47m ago
> First, we’re doubling Claude Code’s five-hour rate limits for Pro, Max, Team, and seat-based Enterprise plans.

Ok I guess, this was a bit of a hassle, but you're not increasing my weekly allowance, you're just not annoying me as often.

> Second, we’re removing the peak hours limit reduction on Claude Code for Pro and Max accounts.

It wasn't a limit reduction (as in, I didn't have a lower 5-hour limit), it was "tokens are more expensive" and it ate my weekly limits faster. This should never have been instituted to begin with.

> Third, we’re raising our API rate limits considerably for Claude Opus models, as shown in the table below:

Meh.

This is why I don't care for all the "it's a subscription, you're free to not use it!" arguments here. It's not an all-you-can-eat subscription with some generous fair use limits, it's a "X tokens per month for $Y", and they keep lowering the X unilaterally and in secret.

iamleppert•46m ago
Hopefully they will work on response time. I've been noticing it taking 5+ minutes for each turn, for not complicated requests. Seems to vary based on time of day too.
amacbride•43m ago
As a bonus, it looks like they reset limits a few minutes ago -- I went from 53% of my weekly allotment to 0%.
arian_•41m ago
Anthropic renting out the data center Elon built for Grok is the kind of plot twist you can't make up.
brokencode•20m ago
Pretty smart for SpaceX though. They’re turning an asset they made for a money-pit (Grok) into probably a major source of revenue ahead of their IPO.
hparadiz•40m ago
Give them whatever they need. Time to go to the moon.
tanh•36m ago
Wouldn't trust them not to take a copy and use it to distill. Wonder what security there is
gpugreg•31m ago
> As part of this agreement, we have also expressed interest in partnering with SpaceX to develop multiple gigawatts of orbital AI compute capacity.

Anthropic is either taking this space business more serious than the general public, or posting this sentence was part of the deal to get the compute.

JMKH42•20m ago
I don't think space compute is going to work out, but I would certainly say "yes happy to buy space compute from you in the future if you offer it at a good price"

If it happens it happens, if not, it doesn't.

joshstrange•6m ago
Ehh, I think they are just "kissing the ring". This was part of the agreement for the terrestrial datacenter access, pretend like the space orbital compute is more than the boondoggle that it clearly is.

I want to be clear, I do think that one day something like that will exist, I just don't think it's anywhere close to being a reality, much like FSD.

Also it costs them, almost [0], nothing to say it and then later come up with some reason why they are no longer interested.

[0] Maybe a little bit of respect

Rover222•3m ago
It’s weird to not take this seriously. It’s obvious it’s serious and they’re pursuing it.
Sevii•2m ago
Anthropic needs any compute they can get. So if Elon wants to build orbital data centers Anthropic would be happy to run models on it. There isn't really any doubt Elon can build orbital data centers the question is if they are economical compared to earth based.
y42•30m ago
I want to believe. A couple of weeks ago I fell into this "trap", they offered a similar thing. I subscribed to the Pro Plan. Had fun for a couple of weeks and then I entered frustration phase. I love the product, but I hate those up and downs. My rant made it to HN front page - which I am not happy of. I want the stuff I build to be seen on the front page.
boramalper•30m ago
I wonder if it's just Elon realising that xAI can't beat OpenAI and thus deciding to give all his compute capacity to Anthropic instead.

Certainly an interesting day for xAI.

bpodgursky•27m ago
Building datacenters plays to his strengths. It's a good partnership if he can stomach it.
consumer451•24m ago
I would think that stomaching Musk would be that hard part. Just goes to show how compute-constrained Anthropic is at this time.

He literally did a Nazi salute on stage, twice! Check the video, and tell me what you see.

nethunters•25m ago
Hopefully this filters through to Copilot's recent rate-limits
skeledrew•25m ago
Oh. Just as I'm in the process of migrating to Pi+Qwen (local). This was probably going to be my last month on the Pro sub as I'm seriously fed up with the limits and degradation that started weeks after I signed up. Let's see how this shakes out.
int32_64•21m ago
What's the current status of the 'biggest computer wins' vs. specialized proprietary research/data in the AI arms race? People had such high hopes for xAI because of the monster machine Elon built. Or has xAI just turned over too much staff too quickly?
antipaul•21m ago
"All of [SpaceX]'s compute capacity at Colossus 1"

SpaceX/xAI also has Colossus 2, with double or more the GPUs

Seems xAI will still be around

mirzap•18m ago
Doubling the five-hour rate limits is merely a marketing stunt if the weekly rates are not also doubled. It simply means that you can reach the weekly limits in three days instead of five.
swalsh•14m ago
I have never come close to my weekly limit, but have hit my hourly limit frequently.
mirzap•13m ago
For me it's the opposite. I almost never hit hourly limit, but I hit weekly limit in about 5 days.
headcanon•4m ago
same, I struggle to use more than half of my weekly, even if I max out my 5-hour windows regularly during the day.
varispeed•2m ago
Who cares about rate limits if they serve your prompt using dumbed down model.
Marciplan•18m ago
If Anthropic and SpaceX and OpenAI are all going public this year then this is a clever move to stick it to OpenAI. However, I'm kinda sus of my Claude subscription now
lairv•12m ago
For a space that supposedly had "no moat", the number of players still competing for frontier models seems to be shrinking pretty fast
swader999•4m ago
What's going to be the hit on our atmosphere when the data centers re enter? I guess it won't matter as the AI will replace the humans by then for the GDP and tax base.
swalsh•8m ago
Models are a commodity, let's say Elon actually figures out building datacenters in space, or maybe he continues to be the leader of building earth based datacenters. Probably better business to not have yourself as your only customer. Dogfood, and open it to all.
mplewis•8m ago
The first is impossible and the second isn't happening and won't happen.
croes•4m ago
I wouldn’t say impossible but not effective
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