Report: Anthropic signs $11.6B, 7-year compute deal with Akamai
nikola_mr64990 · x · 2026-10-11
According to X account TechElyra, Anthropic has signed a $11.6B, 7-year deal with Akamai, which expects to spend around $5.5B to support it.
The poster argues that spending this much on AI infrastructure alone shows the AI race is becoming a race for compute — better models matter, but nothing scales without enough computing power. This is a third-party report without official confirmation.
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