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Anthropic to pay Akamai $11.6 billion over seven years in cloud deal
Anthropic signs multi-billion dollar deal with Akamai to secure vital cloud compute resources.
nthropic has committed $11.6 billion over seven years to Akamai's cloud infrastructure, a bet on CPUs that could grow to about $20 billion, and in an unusual arrangement, Akamai is giving Anthropic a potential stake of up to 5% of its stock that grows as Anthropic spends more.
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This massive partnership signals a strategic shift toward specialized cloud infrastructure providers to support the surging computational demands of generative AI models. The unique equity-sharing agreement creates a deep, long-term alignment between Anthropic's scaling needs and Akamai's hardware performance.
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