Sources: Anthropic is in talks to bring on Nvidia as an anchor investor in its IPO, seeking up to $100B at a ~$2T valuation; Nvidia may invest up to $10B
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If Nvidia anchors a ~$2T Anthropic IPO with up to $10B, the model vendor–chip vendor relationship is becoming vertically entangled capital, not just supply contracts. Enterprise buyers should expect tighter bundling of models, hardware, and cloud credits—and less pricing power when negotiating any one layer in isolation.
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