Anthropic signs $11.6 billion cloud deal with Akamai, pushing its compute spending past $500 billion in under a year
What happened
Anthropic has reportedly signed a seven-year, $11.6 billion cloud deal with Akamai Technologies and will receive a warrant for up to 5 percent of Akamai's shares. Its compute deals have reportedly totaled $517 billion in 11 months. CEO Dario Amodei has warned that Anthropic could go bankrupt if its revenue forecasts are even slightly off.
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