Anthropic commits $11.6B to Akamai cloud deal, possibly growing to $20B

Anthropic signed a seven-year, $11.6B cloud capacity deal with Akamai that could grow to about $20B. The commitment mainly covers CPU workloads rather than GPUs, seen as the first large-scale market validation of distributed inference.

2026-09-25 ~ 2026-09-25 · 3 related posts

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