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Anthropic secures $1.8bn cloud deal with Akamai for AI expansion
Key takeaways
- Akamai confirmed last week that it had signed a seven-year cloud services deal with a provider it described as a “leading frontier model provider” but did not disclose the company’s name.
- Both Anthropic and Akamai declined to comment beyond the information already made public.
- The demand for Anthropic’s AI products, including its Claude software suite, has risen sharply, prompting the company to seek increased computing resources from multiple providers.
Anthropic secures $1.8bn cloud deal with Akamai for AI expansion Anwesha Pattanaik Mon, May 11, 2026 at 6:39 PM GMT+7 2 min read ANTH.PVT AKAM GOOG Anthropic has entered into an agreement valued at $1.8bn with Akamai Technologies to secure additional cloud computing capacity for its AI platforms, sources familiar with the matter told Bloomberg News.
Akamai confirmed last week that it had signed a seven-year cloud services deal with a provider it described as a “leading frontier model provider” but did not disclose the company’s name.
Both Anthropic and Akamai declined to comment beyond the information already made public.
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