Anthropic spends another $45B, accelerates AI compute stockpiling ahead of IPO

Anthropic has signed a six-year, $45 billion compute deal with Nscale, utilizing Nvidia's latest Vera Rubin chips and covering 460 megawatts of power supply. Microsoft had previously signed a letter of intent in March for the data center but pulled out earlier this summer. Anthropic has also launched Claude for Chrome to all paid subscribers, adding autonomous browser operation capabilities.