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Anthropic Signs $45 Billion Compute Deal with Nscale

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Updated Aug 26

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Anthropic has entered into a $45 billion agreement with Nscale to rent AI compute capacity, utilizing Nvidia's Vera Rubin chips. This deal, spanning six years, is part of Anthropic's strategy to enhance its compute capabilities amid competition with rivals like OpenAI.

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This deal marks a significant expansion of Anthropic's compute partnerships, following multiple large agreements in recent months.

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Anthropic signed a deal to rent about $45 billion in AI compute from Nscale.

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Nscale will supply Anthropic with compute via Nvidia’s Vera Rubin chips.

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The compute capacity is expected to start powering Anthropic's services in late 2027.

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The deal spans six years.

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Anthropic signed a $10 billion deal with AI cloud startup Volta earlier this month.

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Anthropic signed a $5 billion compute-related deal with AMD in July.

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Anthropic has a computing deal with SpaceX providing $1.25 billion worth of capacity each month.

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Anthropic expanded its partnership with Amazon in April, gaining access to an additional 5 gigawatts of compute.

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Anthropic expanded its relationship with Google and Broadcom in April.

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Anthropic continues compute-gobbling streak in $45 billion deal with Nscale

TechCrunch·Aug 26