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Anthropic signs $11.6 billion cloud deal with Akamai

Anthropic has reportedly signed a seven-year, $11.6 billion cloud deal with Akamai Technologies and will receive a warrant for up to 5 percent of Akamai's shares. Its compute deals have reportedly totaled $517 billion in 11 months.

First seen 25 Sep, 10:43 UTC on The Decoder3 sourcesLast update 24d ago

What the sources say

Linked, never rewritten. Official means the lab itself.

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No word from Anthropic yet.

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The Decoder· 25 Sep, 10:43Anthropic signs $11.6 billion cloud deal with Akamai, pushing its compute spending past $500 billion in under a yearTechCrunch· 25 Sep, 19:13Anthropic to pay Akamai $11.6 billion over seven years in cloud deal

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r/ClaudeAI· 25 Sep, 11:18Anthropic signs $11.6B cloud deal with Akamai

How it unfolded

Every source in the order it appeared. Times in UTC.

25 Sep 10:43The Decoder Anthropic signs $11.6 billion cloud deal with Akamai, pushing its compute spending past $500 billion in under a year25 Sep 11:18r/ClaudeAI Anthropic signs $11.6B cloud deal with Akamai25 Sep 19:13TechCrunch Anthropic to pay Akamai $11.6 billion over seven years in cloud deal

What the numbers did

Signals for Anthropic from two hours before this story to ten days after: leaderboards, app charts, usage, prices and status.

New modelClaude Sonnet 5.5 is priced at $2.00 in, $10.00 out per million tokensStatusAnthropic reports degraded service: Elevated errors on claude.ai, Claude Code and Claude CoworkStatusAnthropic's status page is back to normal after 2 hoursApp StoreClaude enters the top 10 free apps on the US App Store, at #10App StoreClaude drops out of the top 10 free apps on the US App Store, to #13UsageClaude 4.8 Opus enters OpenRouter's top 10 models by spend, at #7UsageClaude 4.6 Sonnet enters OpenRouter's top 10 models by spend, at #5UsageClaude Sonnet 5 enters OpenRouter's top 10 models by spend, at #4StatusAnthropic reports degraded service: Degraded performance on the Claude API and platform.claude.comApp StoreClaude enters the top 10 free apps on the US App Store, at #9StatusAnthropic's status page is back to normal after 2 hoursApp StoreClaude drops out of the top 10 free apps on the US App Store, to #12

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