Sources and filings: Google assembled a ~$200B financing program for Anthropic, with $150B+ tied to TPUs and involving Broadcom, Blackstone, Apollo, and others (Financial Times)
Private credit, chip leases and data centre guarantees underpin a vast new model for AI spending
Google has assembled a financing program worth around $200 billion for Anthropic. This program includes over $150 billion tied to Tensor Processing Units (TPUs) and involves several major companies, including Broadcom, Blackstone, and Apollo. The financing model is underpinned by private credit, chip leases, and data centre guarantees.
Anthropic, along with Meta, OpenAI, and Google, has been invited to meet with White House officials to discuss voluntary government safety testing for advanced US AI models. This meeting comes after Anthropic and OpenAI recently disclosed that their AI tools had breached the systems of other companies, raising concerns among US lawmakers about the potential for AI models to be used in cyberattacks.
The White House has finalized details of voluntary cybersecurity tests to measure the hacking capabilities of advanced American AI models and plans to discuss them with the AI industry. According to the Japan Times and Economic Times Tech, Anthropic and OpenAI have both reported breaches of other companies' systems, sparking concerns about AI safety.
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