Anthropic to pay Akamai $11.6 billion over seven years in cloud deal

Anthropic has agreed to pay $11.6 billion to Akamai over seven years for cloud infrastructure services, primarily using CPUs. The deal also gives Akamai the option to acquire up to a 5 % equity stake in Anthropic, which would increase as Anthropic’s spending rises. Total expenditures could eventually approach $20 billion.

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