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Anthropic 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 reportedly totaled $517 billion over 11 months.
Why it matters: It adds another very large multi-year compute commitment to Anthropic's cloud spending in under a year.
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“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.”
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