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As stated in its announcement blog post<\/a>, Anthropic will get access to more than 300 megawatts of compute capacity through Colossus 1, which it plans to use to \u201cdirectly improve capacity for Claude Pro and Claude Max subscribers.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n Namely, that means three things.\u00a0<\/p>\n First, Anthropic is doubling Claude Code\u2019s five-hour rate limits for Pro, Max, Team, and seat-based Enterprise plans. It also removes the peak-hour limit reduction for Prox and Max users.<\/p>\n And API rates for Claude Opus models are getting a hike. For example, for Tier 1 users, the maximum input tokens per minute jump from 30,000 to 500,000, while the maximum output tokens per minute increase from 8,000 to 80,000.<\/p>\n \u201cThe shift changes workflows from cautious prompt budgeting to deeper reasoning, bigger tasks, and more complete engineering output.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n Elmer Morales<\/a>, founder of koderAI, tells The New Stack what the limit changes might mean for developer workflows: \u201cThe shift changes workflows from cautious prompt budgeting to deeper reasoning, bigger tasks, and more complete engineering output,\u201d Morales says.<\/p>\n Andy Pernsteiner<\/a>, Field CTO at VAST Data, expresses a similar sentiment, telling The New Stack that the Anthropic deal will likely enable developers \u201cto use Claude Code to build richer applications and more advanced agents,\u201d hopefully freeing them from the need to \u201cmeticulously maintain context and reduce MPC use\u201d \u2014 bottlenecks, he says, have become unfortunate parts of his daily workflow.\u00a0<\/p>\n Anthropic knows something\u2019s got to give<\/p>\n Anthropic inks a deal with SpaceX following a slew of complaints from\u00a0Claude Code users who\u00a0<\/a>said they were hitting usage limits faster than expected<\/a>. One Redditor, for example, claimed a single prompt cost them 10% of their limit, up from the expected 0.5\u20131%.<\/p>\n In its blog post announcing the partnership, Anthropic also points out that it \u201ctrain[s] and run[s] Claude on a range of AI hardware,\u201d naming AWS Trainium, Google TPUs, and Nvidia in the line-up and noting that it \u201ccontinue[s] to explore opportunities to bring additional capacity online.\u201d<\/p>\n In the last several months, Anthropic has been on a compute shopping spree, shaking hands with many members of the Big Tech roundtable to secure new capacity and investment.\u00a0<\/p>\n In April, Anthropic and Amazon announced an agreement<\/a> under which Anthropic secured up to 5 gigawatts (GW) of Amazon\u2019s Trainium and Graviton cores, along with up to $25 billion in investment from the e-commerce company.\u00a0<\/p>\n Earlier that same month, Anthropic also made a deal<\/a> with Google and Broadcom to expand its compute infrastructure starting in 2027 with \u201cmultiple gigawatts of next-generation capacity\u201d \u2014 that\u2019s after it already expanded<\/a> its use of Google Cloud technologies (including up to one million TPUs) in October 2025.\u00a0<\/p>\n And don\u2019t forget the November 2025 partnership<\/a> Anthropic formed with Microsoft and Nvidia, in which the AI company agreed to buy $30 billion in Azure compute capacity.\u00a0<\/p>\n What does it all mean for software developers?<\/p>\n The seemingly never-ending handshaking among Anthropic, Amazon, Microsoft, and the rest of AI\u2019s biggest players makes it hard to place bets on the industry\u2019s future. But both Malores and Pernsteiner take Anthropic\u2019s recent spending spree as a sign that the AI company is preparing itself for continued growth and long-term relevance.\u00a0<\/p>\n \u201cIt is a renewed commitment to ensuring their platform and ecosystem of tools, applications, and frameworks will have enough juice to run at scale.\u201d<\/p>\n Even after Anthropic\u2019s scuffle<\/a> with the Pentagon earlier this year, Pernsteiner says developers should take its new SpaceX deal as a signal that the AI company is one they can continue betting on:<\/p>\n \u201cIt is a renewed commitment to ensuring their platform and ecosystem of tools, applications, and frameworks will have enough juice to run at scale.\u201d<\/p>\n
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