By Aditya Soni and Rashika Singh <\/p>\n
July 22 (Reuters) – Advanced Micro Devices will sell Anthropic tens of billions of dollars’ worth of AI<\/a> servers and invest as much as $5 billion in the Claude \u200cmaker, in a deal that would strengthen its foothold in a market dominated by rival Nvidia<\/a>. <\/p>\n The \u200cannouncement on Wednesday marks the latest so-called circular deal in the AI industry, where chipmakers invest in AI firms that are among their biggest \u200bcustomers. Nvidia has been in talks to invest $30 billion in ChatGPT creator OpenAI. <\/p>\n Buying AMD chips would secure Anthropic much-needed AI computing capacity. The startup has emerged as one of the leaders in Silicon Valley’s artificial intelligence race, thanks to strong adoption of its enterprise tools such as Claude Code. <\/p>\n “It’s strategically significant, as each win deepens AMD’s credibility as the \u200cnumber-two to Nvidia and supports the slow, \u2060steady share gains underpinning its AI growth story,” said Emarketer analyst Jacob Bourne. <\/p>\n Anthropic will buy up to two gigawatts of AMD’s latest-generation Instinct MI450 chips, starting in the first \u2060half of 2027, the companies said. AMD’s investment in Anthropic will be tied to achieving certain deployment milestones. <\/p>\n AMD executives have said 1 gigawatt of computing power, enough for roughly 750,000 U.S. homes, can cost double-digit billions of dollars. <\/p>\n Shares of the Santa \u200bClara, California-based \u200bcompany rose 2.4%. The stock has more than doubled in \u200bvalue so far this year. <\/p>\n In October, AMD announced \u200ca multi-year deal with OpenAI that would also bring in tens of billions of dollars in annual revenue while giving the ChatGPT creator the option to buy up to roughly 10% of the chipmaker. <\/p>\n ANTHROPIC NEEDS COMPUTING CAPACITY <\/p>\n “Access to compute is central to keeping Claude at the frontier and meeting demand from our customers,” Tom Brown, co-founder and compute head at Anthropic, said on Wednesday. <\/p>\n The startup has moved aggressively in recent months to overcome capacity constraints for \u200cits services. It agreed in May to rent the full \u200bcomputing power of SpaceX’s Colossus 1 facility in Memphis, which houses more \u200bthan 220,000 Nvidia processors and gave it 300 \u200bmegawatts of new capacity. <\/p>\n Meta Platforms is also in talks to lease computing power to \u200cAnthropic in a potential deal worth up to $10 billion \u200bover two years, a source \u200bfamiliar with the matter said last week. <\/p>\n Under the latest deal, Anthropic would use some of the AMD chips at its own data centers and lease additional capacity through cloud providers and new AI cloud \u200bcompanies, according to the Wall Street \u200cJournal, which first reported the news. <\/p>\n AMD was in talks to provide a financial backstop for Anthropic’s future \u200bdata-center leases, the report said. <\/p>\n (Reporting by Rashika Singh and Aditya Soni, additional reporting by Anzar \u200bMehraj in Bengaluru; Editing by Jonathan Ananda and Joyjeet Das) <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By Aditya Soni and Rashika Singh July 22 (Reuters) – Advanced Micro Devices will sell Anthropic tens of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":118612,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[2208,60048,53,13822,15551,182,9698,58],"class_list":["post-118611","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-anthropic","tag-advanced-micro-devices","tag-amd-chips","tag-anthropic","tag-billions-of-dollars","tag-capacity-constraints","tag-claude","tag-computing-power","tag-nvidia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118611","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=118611"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118611\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/118612"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=118611"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=118611"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=118611"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}