Apollo, Blackstone eye $36B debt deal for Anthropic AI chip acquisition

Apollo Global Management and Blackstone are reportedly seeking additional investors for a $36 billion debt financing deal. This funding is intended to help Anthropic PBC acquire AI chips, specifically Google's custom TPUs, which Anthropic will then lease. Broadcom, a key partner in developing these chips with Google, is also supporting the largest portion of this transaction. AI

IMPACT This massive debt financing could accelerate Anthropic's AI infrastructure build-out, potentially impacting the competitive landscape for AI compute.

RANK_REASON Significant debt financing deal for AI infrastructure acquisition by a major AI lab. [lever_c_demoted from significant: ic=1 ai=0.7]

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• Anthropic PBC
• Apollo Global Management
• Blackstone
• Broadcom
• Google

• funding
• infra

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