>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

▲

peder 3 hours ago | parent | next [-]

> Looks like Elon's finally giving up on XAI and just selling the compute

I don't think that's certain yet, but I do think that the open-source models like Gemma and Qwen are getting so good so fast that even Anthropic has real risk around the long-term value of their models and tooling.

Basically, if I'm Anthropic or xAI, I try to get revenue whenever and wherever possible and see what sticks. There's no value in playing for monopolistic control when everything is so volatile.

	▲	swalsh 3 hours ago \| parent [-]
		There's always money in the giggawatt datacenter

▲

petercooper 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I don't know if it relates to the same data centers, but this also comes hours after several still recent Grok models were deprecated at short notice. Grok 4.1 Fast is the cheapest way to do research on X (cheaper than the X API!) and it's gone on May 15: https://docs.x.ai/developers/models - freeing up compute to sell?

	▲	swalsh 2 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		Fuck, I loved grok 4.1, it was a really capable model for the money. I'd run agents consuming hundreds of millions of tokens for less than a hundred dollars.
	▲	Geee 2 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		Unlikely, because xAI had huge amount of overcapacity.

▲

AlexCoventry 29 minutes ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I don't think this is giving up. He's getting inside information on how Claude works, and a huge stream of Claude usage data. This will all inform future grok development, IMO.

▲

kingstnap 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

The details are secret. It very well could be wasted GPU time but Anthropic could have made a killer offering as well.

I'm just speculating, but a particularly killer offering Elon wouldnt be able to refuse would be if Anthropic agreed to give them some training data / technology.

▲

swalsh 3 hours ago | parent [-]

Billions in revenue just before your IPO isn't a bad deal either.

	▲	fancyfredbot 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		The icing on the cake for Elon is that it strengthens the competition to OpenAI. Or is that actually his main motivation. Hard to know. Either way it's a win win win for him.

▲

JustSkyfall 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Probably a good idea in all honesty. xAI is a deeply unserious lab

▲

throwa356262 3 hours ago | parent | next [-]

From a technical standpoint xAI is basically Gemini team B who were give A+ salaries to join the company.

But even then, I suspect their hands were tied in some areas because Elon had some expectations from his AI.

▲

fancyfredbot 2 hours ago | parent [-]

Did Google outbid Elon for team A? Or A team just don't like Elon?

	▲	throwa356262 2 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		It's an internal jokes since very few high profile engineers has accepted his offer. If we exclude the Meta AI team that is. But that team essentially imploded which cost Zuck billions to build back up.

▲

cyanydeez 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

There's only so much determinism you can create when you try not to filter (read CENSOR) your LLM.

▲

spikels 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

No I don't ever give up. I would have to be dead or completely incapacitated.

-Elon

https://x.com/XFreeze/status/2012390928221094335

▲

croes 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Or he just got leverage on a competitor

▲

Rover222 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

[dead]