Anthropic Secures Major Cloud Deals with Akamai and Nscale
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What happened
Anthropic entered into an agreement with Akamai for $11.6 billion in cloud services, which includes a warrant allowing Anthropic to acquire up to a 5% stake in the cloud company. Separately, Anthropic agreed to spend $45 billion to rent AI cloud computing power from Nscale's data center campus in West Virginia. These deals occur as Anthropic pursues its IPO plans on the New York Stock Exchange.
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Why it matters
The agreements underscore Anthropic's aggressive expansion of computing power needed to train advanced AI models. The deals add to the multi-billion dollar infrastructure commitments Akamai has announced this year. For Nscale, the commitment from Anthropic is a major factor in its IPO prospects.
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Anthropic
American artificial intelligence corporation
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Nscale
British AI infrastructure provider
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