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Anthropic expects to pay hyperscalers $80B through 2029

development2026-02-18

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Anthropic reportedly expects to pay Amazon, Google and Microsoft at least $80 billion through 2029 to run Claude, with the hyperscalers also taking a revenue cut, while Meta agreed to spend billions on Blackwell and Vera Rubin chips and bought standalone Nvidia CPUs for the first time.

Reported metric: $80B

Reporting date: 2026-02-18 (not necessarily the event date)

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Welcome to February 18, 2026 (theinnermostloop.substack.com)

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Anthropic raises $30B at $380B on $14B run-rate

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Anthropic expects to pay hyperscalers $80B through 2029
Innermost Loop KB — secondary record
Reporting date: 2026-02-18
KB permalink: https://nicholsn.github.io/innermost-loop-kb/developments/2026-02-18-anthropic-owes-80b-to-hyperscalers
Claim: Anthropic reportedly expects to pay Amazon, Google and Microsoft at least $80 billion through 2029 to run Claude, with the hyperscalers also taking a revenue cut, while Meta agreed to spend billions on Blackwell and Vera Rubin chips and bought standalone Nvidia CPUs for the first time.
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- Welcome to February 18, 2026 — https://theinnermostloop.substack.com/p/welcome-to-february-18-2026
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