Anthropic’s cloud partnerships are getting messy
THE SO WHAT
When a top lab with a November IPO on deck struggles to secure capacity from hyperscalers that also see it as a rival, the compute market is shifting from vendor–customer to coopetition. If you’re building on third-party GPUs at scale, lock in multi-cloud options and term commitments now rather than assuming spot capacity will be there later.
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