The agreement is worth $1.8 billion over seven years, and Akamai disclosed it on Thursday without naming the AI company.
People familiar with the matter said the contract will provide computing capacity as Anthropic responds to rising demand for its artificial intelligence software.
The deal highlights intensifying competition for cloud infrastructure and specialised computing resources as frontier AI developers expand their models and services.
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