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Anthropic considers leasing compute from Meta in $10bn agreement
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Anthropic is in the early stages of discussing leasing computing power from Meta.
Key facts
- Meta plans to spend as much as $145 billion this year, with a significant portion allocated to AI data centers, more than double the $72 billion it spent last year
- In May, Anthropic signed a similar contract with SpaceXAI worth $45 billion over three years for access to the Colossus 1 supercomputer
- The deal could be worth as much as $10 billion over two years
- The company this month hired Dave Brown, a senior vice president at Amazon Web Services
Summary
The New York Times and that the two businesses are in preliminary discussions, following Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg's May comments that the company was considering entering the cloud computing business. The deal could be worth as much as $10 billion over two years. In May, Anthropic signed a similar contract with SpaceXAI worth $45 billion over three years for access to the Colossus 1 supercomputer. That month, Zuckerberg said that the idea of launching a Meta Cloud business was "definitely on the table.