So you can put Anthropic on your list of companies that like to talk big about safety, but when the rubber hits the road, profits matter more than safety.

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.

>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

The scale is just mindboggling here. Are there any blog posts or anything discussing what kind of infrastructure is used for even just the inference side (nevermind the training) for SotA models like Opus? I would have thought it might be secret, but given that you can actually run the models yourself on AWS Bedrock doesn't that give an indication?

While this is good news, I'm not coming back. Anthropic just lost me with too many wrongs in too short of a time period.

Opus has been replaced with GPT 5.5, DeepSeek, Kimi, Qwen and they all allow me to use my own, single harness and switch models easily if any of them start treating me the same.

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.

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

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

Seems xAI will still be around

300MW is peanuts compared to their multiple 50GW+ deals to the point you start to wonder why just 300MW is making the difference in their capacity that they can increase limits this much... also, why couldn't their many existing multi billion dollar deals not allow them to expand capacity?

when you take this into account, then you read their statement about orbital compute it starts to smell quite fishy

Certainly an interesting day for xAI.

* Inference becomes cheap

- speciality accelerators hit the market and race to the bottom begins

* Training remains expensive

- This works out for Anthropic/OpenAI, they go into the business of training

* Models become rental units or purchasable assets, you run on inference hardware

- Rent or own inference hardware

* Or you pay someone to do all of the above for you, at a premium

So, they handed out all of their data center to Anthropic; Grok wasn't using it much?

xAI has added about 500MW of nvidia gpu capacity in ~April

and will add another 500MW before the end of the year totaling about 2GW.

[0] https://wccftech.com/xai-using-just-11-percent-gpus-while-me...

To me this is the mind-bending piece. It's not a like a datacenter has a plug-and-play with well written spec and an international standard interface.

On the plus-side, it told me how much cheaper Deepseek is and that it's on parity for reverse engineering work.

This might be a good time to drop Claude.

I have got xAI blocked in OpenRouter as I do not want to support any business controlled by Musk.

I'm starting to think the problem with "ethical" AI was always that no company could ever act ethically in the long term. They are and always will be a cancer to society and AI will only serve to amplify this further.

*Buys compute from actual fascist Elon Musk in a failing democracy during the death throes of late state capitalism.

My first impression to this post is "what the hell are they thinking?", but actually it seems like a decent move by them.

They basically made it so that normal users can better utilize their plan while not benefitting the backgroundagentmaxxers and stealth openclaw abusers in the ranks of their subscription audience. Making their plan more attractive to the people they actually want to sell to.

Hopefully this leads to a loosening of harness restrictions later.

Staying with Claude is like going back to the restaurant where you got food poisoning: you kinda get what you deserve next time you get sick.

SpaceX is extremely uniquely positioned to crush the rest of the world combined in order to orbital data centers.

1. https://wccftech.com/xai-using-just-11-percent-gpus-while-me...

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.

I'm posting immediately after cancelling my claude subscriptions.

But, if you will pardon a little rant: I hate the idea of subscription inference plans and also 'dumping' by subsidizing non-profitable products. Inferencing should be pay as you go and dumping illegal.