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Anthropic commits $11.6B over seven years to Akamai for CPU compute; Akamai grants Anthropic a warrant for up to ~5% of its stock
- Current status
- Announced
- Companies
- Anthropic, Akamai (counterparty)
- Happened
- Sep 24, 2026
- Last updated
- Sep 25, 2:50 PM PT (revision 1)
- Evidence
- 3 reports · 1 independent chain (adjudicated)
What happened
Akamai announced a seven-year, $11.6B agreement for Anthropic workloads on its cloud, using CPUs rather than GPUs. The commitment can grow by up to $9B, to about $20B. Akamai issued Anthropic a warrant convertible into up to about 5% of its shares, vesting with spending milestones. Akamai stock rose as much as 17% after hours.
Why it matters
Frontier-lab spend is spreading beyond GPUs into CPU-heavy workloads and beyond the hyperscalers, with equity sweeteners attached. That's a new template for compute deals.
Uncertainty
The terms come from TechCrunch's reading of the release. We couldn't open the primary release directly.
Evidence and provenance
- Primary sourcechain: akamai-announcementAkamai announces $11.6 billion multi-year agreement with AnthropicGlobeNewswire (Akamai) · published Sep 24, 2026 · globenewswire.com · rev 1
- CoverageAnthropic to pay Akamai $11.6 billion over seven years in cloud dealTechCrunch · published Sep 25, 2026 · techcrunch.com · rev 1
- CoverageAnthropic strikes $12 billion deal with Akamai for AI computingBloomberg · published Sep 24, 2026 · paywall · bloomberg.com · rev 1