Anthropic Goes Big on Compute, Microsoft Rethinks AI
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Anthropic’s $11.6B Akamai deal is another datapoint that frontier labs are locking in multi-year compute like energy companies contract for offtake. If you’re not a top-5 buyer, your leverage will be in flexibility — multi-cloud, model diversity, and workload portability — not in trying to outbid on raw capacity.
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