Higher usage limits for Claude and a compute deal with SpaceX

htrp

>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 for Claude Opus models, Looks like Elon's finally giving up on XAI and just selling the compute

Philpax

Well, this sucks :/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colossus_(supercomputer)#Envir...

cbg0

They're doubling the five hour limits, but no mention about the weekly limit. So overall it's the same maximum usage, right?

minimaxir

> First, we’re doubling Claude Code’s five-hour rate limits for Pro, Max, Team, and seat-based Enterprise plans. 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.

athrow

Anthropic taketh and Anthropic giveth.

stavros

> First, we’re doubling Claude Code’s five-hour rate limits for Pro, Max, Team, and seat-based Enterprise plans. 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.

iamleppert

Hopefully they will work on response time. I've been noticing it taking 5+ minutes for each turn, for not complicated requests. Seems to vary based on time of day too.

amacbride

As a bonus, it looks like they reset limits a few minutes ago -- I went from 53% of my weekly allotment to 0%.

arian_

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

hparadiz

Give them whatever they need. Time to go to the moon.

tanh

Wouldn't trust them not to take a copy and use it to distill. Wonder what security there is

gpugreg

> 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.

y42

I want to believe. A couple of weeks ago I fell into this "trap", they offered a similar thing. I subscribed to the Pro Plan. Had fun for a couple of weeks and then I entered frustration phase. I love the product, but I hate those up and downs. My rant made it to HN front page - which I am not happy of. I want the stuff I build to be seen on the front page.

boramalper

I wonder if it's just Elon realising that xAI can't beat OpenAI and thus deciding to give all his compute capacity to Anthropic instead. Certainly an interesting day for xAI.

nethunters

Hopefully this filters through to Copilot's recent rate-limits

skeledrew

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.

int32_64

What's the current status of the 'biggest computer wins' vs. specialized proprietary research/data in the AI arms race? People had such high hopes for xAI because of the monster machine Elon built. Or has xAI just turned over too much staff too quickly?

antipaul

"All of [SpaceX]'s compute capacity at Colossus 1" SpaceX/xAI also has Colossus 2, with double or more the GPUs Seems xAI will still be around

mirzap

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.

Marciplan

If Anthropic and SpaceX and OpenAI are all going public this year then this is a clever move to stick it to OpenAI. However, I'm kinda sus of my Claude subscription now