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Higher usage limits for Claude and a compute deal with SpaceX

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Re: Higher usage limits for Claude and a compute deal with SpaceX

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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

Pablo Escobar built hospitals. Ted Bundy saved lives on a suicide hotline

so what?

Nobody is 100% evil

Musk helped dismantling USAID which leads to many people’s death.

Re: Higher usage limits for Claude and a compute deal with SpaceX

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>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…

Or he just got leverage on a competitor

Re: Higher usage limits for Claude and a compute deal with SpaceX

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Reading the comments here again surprises me how in an anti-Elon bubble most folks are. They are renting out spare Colossus 1 capacity. Colossus 2 is still coming online. Orbital data centers are really the plan in the next few years. XAi is still behind, but not a disaster considering how late they entered (and Elon’s unfortunate fixation on anime characters).

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

Re: Higher usage limits for Claude and a compute deal with SpaceX

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

I have never come close to my weekly limit, but have hit my hourly limit frequently.

For me it's the opposite. I almost never hit hourly limit, but I hit weekly limit in about 5 days.

What does your usage look like day to day? Are you using a low level amount all day long? I'm with the others here, I've never hit the weekly limit ever, only the hourly, and I consider myself a heavy user.

Re: Higher usage limits for Claude and a compute deal with SpaceX

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Building datacenters plays to his strengths. It's a good partnership if he can stomach it.

I would think that stomaching Musk would be the 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. edit: https://giphy.com/gifs/elon-musk-nazi-salute-8W0ItVv7T1kRdwb...

meh, he's no Graham Platner

Re: Higher usage limits for Claude and a compute deal with SpaceX

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> 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.

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.

It makes no sense. We're being presented with a forced choice -- put them in space, or put them in the middle of downtown Seattle.

This is stupid. I don't understand what's happening... specifically, what mental virus is spreading that lowers everybody's IQ by 10-20 points, evidently including my own. Put the data centers in the ocean, powered by solar and networked with Starlink or LEO. Put them in the desert. Put them 20 miles south of Nowhere, Idaho.

But space?!

Re: Higher usage limits for Claude and a compute deal with SpaceX

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post #49

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.

I've found with opus 4.6 which im still stubbornly using i can burn about 10% of the weekly within a 5 hour window with my workflow.

Mentally i think about the weekly usage in terms of usage per day so about 14% per day which results in me not using that much early in the week so i can kinda "burn freely" later on. which leads me to a spot where usually on the final two days im sorta thinking about how can i expend that usage ive "saved".

the 5 hour windows make this harder, sometimes the final day of the week im trying to get that 10% in every 5 hour window of my waking hours and i HATE that, i wanna work when i am most productive, not around some ridiculous window of time, i dont wanna think "I am gonna be utilizing claude the most around 11am so i should send a dumb message to haiku to get my 5 hour window started at 7:30am so i can have it roll over at 12:30."

So im happy about this change sure. But it is 100% them creating a problem and pretending having some relief from that problem is them doing their users a favor. I understand they are doing it to lower peak hours usage and all that, I still despise it.

Re: Higher usage limits for Claude and a compute deal with SpaceX

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> 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.

> or posting this sentence was part of the deal to get the compute

All it says is expressed interest.

That's like asking a casual how are you...

Re: Higher usage limits for Claude and a compute deal with SpaceX

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Anthropic renting out the data center Elon built for Grok is the kind of plot twist you can't make up.

Plot twist but makes perfect sense for both companies.

Anthropic gets the compute they so desperately need to keep growing. Elon rents out compute that xAI couldn't make use of due to little demand for Grok. SpaceX gets revenue on the books for IPO.

PS. I want to translate this part:

  We’re very intentional about where we’ll add capacity—partnering with democratic countries whose legal and regulatory frameworks support investments of this scale
To real speak:

  We're putting profits above anything else. Yes, Elon is a far right guy who supported Trump, a president who isn't very democratic, but we're just really desperate for more money. We're also trying to make you forget that xAI is funded by Middle East non-democratic governments. Heck, we'll even buy compute from China if we can sell Anthropic models there.

Re: Higher usage limits for Claude and a compute deal with SpaceX

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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."

I acknowledge there's an issue here, but I don't think it makes sense to label it "pollution". When something is polluted it generally means using it can lead to some form of harm, directly or indirectly. I fail to see how confusing satellites for stars stars causes harm, per se (though of course it would suck to be an astronomer).
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