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Anthropic to pay Akamai $11.6 billion over seven years in cloud deal

September 25

Anthropic has committed $11.6 billion over seven years to Akamai's cloud infrastructure, a bet on CPUs that could grow to about $20 billion, and in an unusual arrangement, Akamai is giving Anthropic…

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