Colossus
also referred to as: colossus one
4 statements across 4 episodes · 1 bullish · 1 bearish · 3 people on the record · first statement May 14, 2025 by Alex Hanna · said 18 times in 14 episodes since 2024 · across every show →
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brought up most by Alex Kantrowitz (8), Ranjan Roy (4), M.G. Siegler (3), Liz Hoffman (1), Boris Cherny (1), Alex Hanna (1)
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2026 12 mentions in 8 episodes 2 per episode
- Did Apple (Finally) Get AI Right At WWDC?, Anthropic’s Worry, Microsoft vs. OpenAI
- The Unlikely Anthropic & SpaceX Marriage, OpenAI Trial Revelations, AI Layoffs Or Cope?
- SpaceX’s IPO Triumph, Anthropic’s Fable Fumble, OpenAI’s Price War
- Did Google Just Fall Behind Again?, WWDC Preview, Anthropic Files To Go Public
- Is OpenAI Ready To IPO?, The Datacenters in Space Myth, The Kids Boo AI
- Claude Code Head Boris Cherny: Insane Growth, Tokenmaxxing, AI Agents' Next Frontier
- Did Apple Get AI Spending Right?, Microsoft & OpenAI’s New Reality, Where’s Stargate?
- OpenAI's TBPN Mistake, SpaceX’s $2 Trillion IPO?, Iran Disables Amazon Infrastructure
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2025 4 mentions in 4 episodes 1 per episode
- OpenAI’s Windsurf Crash, Grok’s Wild Week, Replace Tim Cook? — With Aaron Levie
- Apple’s Anthropic Flirtation, Can Meta Build Superintelligence?, AI Browser Wars — With M.G. Siegler
- Is ChatGPT The Last Website?, Grok’s System Prompt, Meta’s llama Fiasco
- AI’s Drawbacks: Environmental Damage, Bad Benchmarks, Outsourcing Thinking
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Everything said about Colossus, oldest first
May 14, 2025 negative
Hanna says xAI uses methane generators to power its Memphis supercomputer
“I would also say that speaking about existing effects, there's also a lot of reporting coming out of Memphis right now, especially around the methane generators that XAI has been using to power a particular supercomputer there called Colossus there, and specif…”
May 11, 2026 neutral
SpaceX leases entire 300MW Colossus One compute capacity to Anthropic
“Anthropic will use all the computing capacity from SpaceX's Colossus One data center in a new agreement with Elon Musk's rockets and artificial intelligence company. SpaceX will supply 300 megawatts of new computing capacity Using more than 220,000 NVIDIA GPUs…”
May 20, 2026 positive