Anthropic and AKAMAI reach $11.6 billion artificial intelligence computing power deal

PANews reported on September 25 that Akamai Technologies, an established Internet infrastructure company, announced that it has significantly expanded its cooperation with Anthropic and obtained a seven-year contract commitment from the AI ​​company totaling US$11.6 billion. According to the announcement, Akemi will support Anthropic's rapidly growing CPU workload needs through its cloud business's distributed AI infrastructure and software. There is still room for further expansion of cooperation between the two parties. Acme disclosed that this transaction allows for an additional expansion of cooperation of up to US$9 billion in the future, with a potential total commitment size of approximately US$20 billion.