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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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Post by bethekidyouwant »

pdimitar wrote: post #255
shimman wrote: post #198

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Most big tech CEOs are people that only "succeeded" due to have an unregulated monopoly or picking the right lotto ticket and not due to any innate above average intelligence. Go look at the 100s of billions in wasted capital and tell me who benefitted from such waste while workers + children suffer from lack of medical care. You honestly expect this trajectory to continue unabated?

> You honestly expect this trajectory to continue unabated? Knowing humanity's history, yes. Not sure we're ever going to see a second French Revolution. People are pacified and are not rioting. And they really should. Most of us are kind of privileged. I know people out there who are barely holding on and the recent fuel + food price increases might push them over the edge to actual poverty.

But not French revolution poverty to be fair.

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

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Post by scottyah »

ceejayoz wrote: post #264
lijok wrote: post #261

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what do you mean they can’t get rid of heat? radiators exist

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/External_Active_Thermal_Contro... All that gets you 70kW of cooling. Radiating to vacuum isn't very efficient.

Dang, sucks we can never improve any technology. Let's just call it quits, guys.

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

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Post by a4isms »

giwook wrote: post #177
23rf wrote: post #121

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Its not even that. Its better to be involved in the game with a leader/help out a competitor who is competing against someone you don't like and don't want them to win, than to sit it out.

The enemy of my enemy is my friend.

This is something you say aloud, while muttering "useful idiot" under your breath.

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

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Post by scottyah »

vel0city wrote: post #252
dzhiurgis wrote: post #201

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Scott Manley, I’d say one of the top pop space youtubers say otherwise. If anything it’s easier in space. On earth most complexity in datacenter is cooling. In space you just radiate it away. And SpaceX already proven they can launch sort of datacenters 10k times by launching Starlink (up to 20KW of solar each IIRC). FWIW Musk should support Bernie Sanders more. Putting moratoriums on datacenters would make space bas…

He just mentions and walks through idea of having some amount of compute up there and what the heat rejection calculations roughly look like. He doesn't actually explore the economics of doing such a thing or discuss if it's actually worth doing. It's not that you can't put a server in space, but the costs to do it almost assuredly don't make any sense. Because, if you can do it in space you can do it easier on the g…

Especially with everyone clamoring to have datacenters built in their backyards. There's absolutely no way there can be an advantage to figuring out compute outside Earth's magnetosphere, especially since none of the engineers as SpaceX would ever think of any long-term benefits of that.

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

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Post by ceejayoz »

scottyah wrote: post #312
ceejayoz wrote: post #264

Earlier quoted context omitted.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/External_Active_Thermal_Contro... All that gets you 70kW of cooling. Radiating to vacuum isn't very efficient.

Dang, sucks we can never improve any technology. Let's just call it quits, guys.

Technology is wonderful.

Physics still gets a say.

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

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Post by dzhiurgis »

vel0city wrote: post #252
dzhiurgis wrote: post #201

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Scott Manley, I’d say one of the top pop space youtubers say otherwise. If anything it’s easier in space. On earth most complexity in datacenter is cooling. In space you just radiate it away. And SpaceX already proven they can launch sort of datacenters 10k times by launching Starlink (up to 20KW of solar each IIRC). FWIW Musk should support Bernie Sanders more. Putting moratoriums on datacenters would make space bas…

He just mentions and walks through idea of having some amount of compute up there and what the heat rejection calculations roughly look like. He doesn't actually explore the economics of doing such a thing or discuss if it's actually worth doing. It's not that you can't put a server in space, but the costs to do it almost assuredly don't make any sense. Because, if you can do it in space you can do it easier on the g…

I'm just responding to op saying it's impossible to get rid of heat. None of us touched economics.

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

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Post by scottyah »

Rover222 wrote: post #74
gpugreg wrote: post #25

> 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.

It’s weird to not take this seriously. It’s obvious it’s serious and they’re pursuing it.

Thank you for a reasonable comment. I know internet people love to comment on how "dumb" things are, but we're seeing a growing group of funded, motivated, and intelligent people working towards a common goal. It's at least something to be curious about, I wish the comments were more oriented towards in-depth discussions on the actual current blockers.

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

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Post by scottyah »

vidarh wrote: post #133
swalsh wrote: post #55

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

I hit my weekly limit in 3 days this week. Irregularly do in 5. With the top MAX sub.

Wow, then you are most likely doing something very wrong.

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

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Post by flumpcakes »

skeledrew wrote: post #35

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.

How does Pi+Qwen (local) compare to Anthropic's offerings? Surely you're not getting the same breadth and quality of output using Qwen? How is the performance?

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

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Post by sergiotapia »

gck1 wrote: post #206

Limits were the last straw that made me cancel my subscription and make my workflow completely model agnostic with pi. 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.

I wouldn't make any grand stand declarations like this honestly. The models themselves are all hot swappable with minimum effort. The AI labs american or chinese don't really have a moat. Today anthropic is bad and openai is good. Last month it was the other way around. Next month it may be google.

The only certainty is that you can swap models quickly and painlessly.

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