Anthropic continues compute-gobbling streak in $45B deal with Nscale

Anthropic has signed a $45 billion deal to rent AI computing power from Nscale, a British AI infrastructure company founded in 2024, with the compute capacity expected to begin powering Anthropic's services in late 2027. The deal spans six years and will use Nvidia's Vera Rubin chips, described as state-of-the-art chip systems. This agreement is one of several major compute deals Anthropic has signed recently, including partnerships with Volta, AMD, SpaceX, Amazon, and Google, as the company aggressively scales up computing capacity to compete with rivals like OpenAI. The broader competition for AI computing power is ongoing, with other major players including Google, OpenAI, and Meta also pursuing similar compute capacity agreements.