Meta Weighs $10 Billion Anthropic Compute Lease Over 2 Years
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Updated · The New York Times · Jul 17
Meta Weighs $10 Billion Anthropic Compute Lease Over 2 Years
3 articles · Updated · The New York Times · Jul 17
Summary
$10 billion over two years is the scale of a proposed deal under which Anthropic would rent computing power from Meta's AI data centers, with talks still early and no agreement assured.
Anthropic made the approach in June and would pay monthly under terms that, like its other compute contracts, would let either side exit early.
The proposal is far smaller than Anthropic's May agreement with SpaceX, a $45 billion, three-year compute deal worth about $1.25 billion a month.
For Meta, the talks could become an early test of its push to monetize AI infrastructure after saying it may spend up to $145 billion this year, more than double last year's $72 billion.