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Colossus

Colossus

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Last discussed Oct 14, 2026

A biotechnology company focused on de-extinction and genetic engineering, known for recreating extinct species like direwolves.

What creators say

"They didn't have the Colossus data center available to them."

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Jeremy Stern
mentioned

"This is what Patrick and I originally discussed when we were talking about me coming to Colossus was, you know, there was this great tradition of long form American magazine writing."

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John Coogan
mentioned
Praised: Popular deep-dive profiles vs: Compared with AI-generated articles

"People read New Yorker articles. People read any deep dive, any profile. The Colossus profiles are burning up tech every other month."

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Dave Blundin
mentioned

"He rented all of Colossus from Elon, which is capable of running many millions of concurrent agents that are improving the algorithms as we speak."

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"Elon was offering two to three times normal salary to anyone who's willing to go to Tennessee and work on Colossus."

"Anthropic, which in their collaboration agreement announced with SpaceX AI and for use of Colossus and Colossus 2, leaning forward to orbital data center-based compute."

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David Friedberg
mentioned 2
Used for: AI compute infrastructure

"Remember too that he has three facilities, Colossus, Macro hard, and Macro harder"

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Jason Calacanis
mentioned 1
Used for: Data center for AI model training

"Elon just leased all of Colossus 1, his data center to Anthropic"

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+1 more mention from Jason

"Elon has 550,000 GPUs in Colossus. He's scaling up to 1 million and then of course he's going to bring it to space."

Jason Lemkin
mentioned
Praised: Most amazing data center with hundreds of thousands of GPUs

"they've already committed to using a lot of the million GPUs that SpaceX whatever we're calling it is in Colossus"

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