Anthropic Secures $10B Computing Deal Amid AI Infrastructure Rush

Anthropic has signed a $10 billion agreement for computing capacity from Nvidia-backed cloud infrastructure startup Volta Infra Holdings. This six-year contract will use a data center in Norway operated in partnership with Bitcoin miner Bitdeer Technologies, providing 133 megawatts of computing capacity and equipped with Nvidia's latest Vera Rubin chips.

This marks the latest step in Anthropic's rapid expansion of AI computing resources as demand for its Claude models continues to grow among businesses and consumers. The company has recently entered computing partnerships with SpaceX, Advanced Micro Devices, and Akamai Technologies.

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Apple has intensified its legal dispute with OpenAI by asking a US court for a preliminary injunction to prevent the artificial intelligence company and two former Apple employees from accessing or using what Apple alleges are its confidential trade secrets. Central to the case are allegations involving former Apple executive Tang Tan, now OpenAI's chief hardware officer.