Anthropic Discusses $10 Billion Compute Lease from Meta

Anthropic, the AI company behind the Claude chatbot, is in early discussions with Meta to lease computing power in a deal valued at approximately $10 billion, according to people familiar with the matter. The talks come as Anthropic seeks to secure the vast amounts of compute needed to train its next-generation AI models. If finalized, the agreement would give Anthropic access to Meta's data centers and specialized hardware. The discussions are still in a preliminary stage and no deal has been reached.