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Akamai’s Anthropic Deal Puts $5.5 Billion Behind Its Edge AI Pivot
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How a network company, not a hyperscaler, may have just shown telcos their next AI infrastructure business.
The move is the latest chapter in a partnership between one of the fastest growing AI companies and the dot-com era innovator.
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 a potential stake of up to 5% of its stock that grows as Anthropic spends more.