Anthropic signs $1.8B Akamai deal

AI startup Anthropic has signed a $1.8 billion cloud computing deal with Akamai Technologies to meet the surging demand for its software.

The agreement highlights the massive infrastructure costs facing AI companies as they race to scale their models.

Akamai will provide the necessary computing power and storage to support Anthropic's next generation of large language models.

This deal is one of the largest infrastructure agreements in the history of the AI industry.

Analysts say the partnership positions Anthropic to compete more effectively with larger rivals like OpenAI and Google.