# Anthropic to pay Akamai $11.6 billion over seven years in cloud deal

**Published:** September 25, 2026
**Author:** Aditya Mehta
**Source:** TechCrunch — AI
**Language:** en-US
**HTML:** https://aiqazaqstan.com/en/articles/anthropic-to-pay-akamai-11-6-billion-over-seven-years-in-cloud-deal

Anthropic has committed $11.6 billion over seven years to Akamai's cloud infrastructure, a bet on CPUs that could grow to about $20 billion, and in an unusual arrangement, Akamai is giving Anthropic a potential stake of up to 5% of its stock that grows as Anthropic spends more.

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**Tags:** #OpenAI #Anthropic #Microsoft

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