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

Anthropic 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.

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