Anthropic
Anthropic signs an $11.6 billion cloud deal with Akamai
🧒 Discovery
Anthropic paid an enormous amount of money to a company called Akamai to make sure it has enough powerful computers for the next seven years.
📰 Essential
Anthropic has committed to pay Akamai $11.6 billion over seven years to lock in the cloud computing capacity needed to train and run its models.
🔬 Expert
The multi-year commitment reflects the race among AI labs to secure compute capacity as demand outpaces what traditional providers can supply. It also cements Akamai as an AI infrastructure player in a market so far dominated by AWS, Google Cloud, Azure and specialized AI neoclouds.