Meta Might Lease Compute Power from Anthropic
mfiguiere · hn · 2026-07-18
According to The New York Times, Meta is in talks with Anthropic to lease computing power in a potential deal worth up to $10 billion.
This type of partnership underscores the massive and ongoing demand for compute power among frontier model companies, with multi-billion-dollar infrastructure transactions increasingly taking the form of compute leasing.
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