Anthropic seeks $10 billion Meta compute lease as Meta eyes cloud push

Anthropic is negotiating a $10 billion two-year lease of Meta's compute resources, signalling Meta's entry into commercial cloud computing for AI infrastructure. Meta is simultaneously hiring AWS veterans and preparing to monetise excess data centre capacity as semiconductor scarcity makes compute a standalone revenue stream.

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