Deals
Akamai: Anthropic commits $11.6B over seven years to Akamai Cloud
Akamai said in an official release that Anthropic has made an $11.6 billion contractual commitment over seven years to run its growing CPU workloads on Akamai Cloud, with room to expand by up to $9 billion more for a potential total of about $20 billion. As part of the deal, Akamai issued Anthropic a warrant for up to about 5% of its common stock (about 2% vesting with this commitment) and estimates roughly $5.5 billion in related capital spending. This is Akamai’s compute deal with Anthropic, not an acquisition, and not the separate report on Anthropic founders’ voting control.