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Broadcom to lend Anthropic $42 billion for chip leases
Original: Broadcom to lend Anthropic $42 billion to lease chips: Report
Broadcom has agreed to lend Anthropic $42 billion to fund leases of its AI chips, according to a report. The deal underscores the increasingly aggressive financing arrangements tech companies are using to secure computing capacity, with chipmakers effectively bankrolling their own customers. It adds to growing debate about the scale of debt and vendor financing underpinning the AI buildout.
Why now: A huge vendor-financing deal between two major AI players raises questions about debt-fuelled AI infrastructure spending.
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