Anthropic’s IPO filing details $637B of computing deals. The fine print matters more than the total.
Anthropic must pay Google, Amazon, Microsoft and Broadcom $431B whether or not it uses the capacity. SpaceX, Nscale and Lambda get $206B only as capacity arrives, with more ways out.
SpaceX raised $85.7B in its June IPO and spent $16.4B building out its AI unit last quarter, more than triple a year earlier. It has since agreed to lease about $40B of AI chips over five years. Either side can end its Anthropic deal on 90 days’ notice from early 2027.
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