Anthropic rents $45B in AI compute from Nscale
anthropic signs 6-year deal with nscale for $45 billion in ai compute via nvidia vera rubin chips, aiming to boost its ai labs services. this deal is part of anthropic's aggressive compute capacity expansion.
anthropic has agreed to a 6-year deal with nscale, a british ai infrastructure company, to rent $45 billion in ai compute. the compute capacity will be powered by nvidia's vera rubin chips, which combine six different chips working in concert. this deal is the latest in anthropic's compute partnerships, following agreements with volta, amd, spacex, amazon, google, and broadcom. the goal is to boost anthropic's ai labs services, expected to start in late 2027. this aggressive expansion is part of anthropic's effort to compete with major ai players like openai and google.