Sources and filings: Google assembled a ~$200B financing program for Anthropic, with $150B+ tied to TPUs and involving Broadcom, Blackstone, Apollo, and others (Financial Times)
Google structured a roughly $200B Anthropic financing program centered on TPU capacity, private credit, chip leases, and data center guarantees.
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<p><a href="https://www.techmeme.com/260804/p6#a260804p6" title="Techmeme permalink"><img height="12" src="http://www.techmeme.com/img/pml.png" style="border: none; padding: 0; margin: 0;" width="11" /></a> <a href="https://www.ft.com/">Financial Times</a>:<br />
<span style="font-size: 1.3em;"><b><a href="https://www.ft.com/content/549f2e23-5aa2-49c7-9ea6-a9784ab7087c">Sources and filings: Google assembled a ~$200B financing program for Anthropic, with $150B+ tied to TPUs and involving Broadcom, Blackstone, Apollo, and others</a></b></span> — Private credit, chip leases and data centre guarantees underpin a vast new model for AI spending</p>
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