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Broadcom to lend Anthropic up to $42bn for AI chip leases
Original: Broadcom will lend Anthropic up to $42bn to lease its AI chips
Broadcom has agreed to lend Anthropic up to $42 billion so the AI company can lease Broadcom's custom AI chips, deepening the financial and commercial ties between the two firms. The deal underscores how chipmakers are increasingly financing their customers' compute purchases as competition for AI infrastructure intensifies.
Why now: It is a massive, unusually structured financing deal between a major chipmaker and one of the leading AI labs.
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