Nscale and Anthropic reportedly in talks for another $45 billion compute deal
TechCrunch AI · rss · 2026-10-20
Nscale and Anthropic are reportedly negotiating yet another compute deal worth about $45 billion, matching the magnitude of the agreement the two companies announced in August. If it materializes, the cumulative partnership would reach roughly $90 billion, underscoring how aggressively frontier AI labs are locking up training and inference capacity.
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