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Apollo + Blackstone shop $36B debt deal for Anthropic to buy Google TPUs — largest chip-financing transaction in history
Apollo Global Management and Blackstone are arranging a roughly $36 billion debt financing for Anthropic — structured through a special-purpose vehicle that buys Google's custom TPU chips and leases them back to Anthropic across data centers in New York, Texas, Louisiana, and Indiana. The structure keeps the debt off Anthropic's balance sheet. Broadcom is backstopping payments on the largest portions. Yields around 5.75% on the $25B A2 tranche; 8-9% on the riskier $4.5B B notes. One of the largest-ever private credit deals and the biggest chip-financing transaction on record.
Read story →NVIDIA hand-delivers first Vera CPUs to Anthropic, OpenAI, SpaceX, Oracle — first standalone NVIDIA CPU lands at frontier labs
NVIDIA's Ian Buck hand-delivered the first Vera CPU systems to Anthropic (San Francisco), OpenAI (Mission Bay), SpaceX (Palo Alto), and Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (Santa Clara) at the end of May 2026. Vera is NVIDIA's first standalone data-center CPU, purpose-built for agentic AI workloads, competing directly with Intel Xeon and AMD EPYC. In full production since March 2026. The frontier-lab customer roster maps NVIDIA's $100B-class strategic compute alliances for the agentic-AI era.
Read story →Anthropic in early talks with Microsoft to run Claude inference on Maia 200 chips — first frontier validation of Microsoft custom silicon
Anthropic is in early-stage discussions with Microsoft to run Claude inference workloads on Microsoft's custom Maia 200 AI accelerators via Azure — a deal that would make Claude the first frontier model to validate Microsoft custom silicon externally. Maia 200 launched January 2026 on TSMC 3nm, 216GB HBM3e, 10+ petaflops FP4. The talks follow the April 27 Microsoft-OpenAI exclusivity restructuring and add a fourth custom-silicon option to Anthropic's compute supply chain alongside NVIDIA, AWS Trainium, and Google TPU.
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