Anthropic offers Blackstone more than 10% return in US$60 billion AI chip financing deal
Anthropic is offering Blackstone a total return of more than 10% to help finance a US$60 billion artificial intelligence (AI) chip procurement package, as higher infrastructure financing costs make expanding computing capacity more expensive. The proposed arrangement, reportedly code-named Project North Star, would fund purchases of Google tensor processing units (TPUs) with a combined capacity of approximately 1.5 GW.
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