Anthropic’s compute bill keeps getting stranger
What jumps out to me is not the size of the Akamai deal so much as the fact that Anthropic is now buying compute from everywhere that can plausibly sell it. That feels less like a clean infrastructure strategy and more like an AI company trying to stitch together supply from whatever the market will give it. The CPU part is the interesting detail. Everyone still talks about GPUs as the whole story, but this deal is a reminder that serious AI stacks need a lot of boring machinery around the model
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