Anthropic's updated confidential draft IPO filing describes about $450 billion in cloud compute agreements over the next decade, which the Wall Street Journal reported after reviewing it, calling them 'massive, noncancelable' commitments. Amazon, Alphabet and Microsoft are each renting computing power to Anthropic and hold equity stakes in it, while also building AI products that compete with Claude. The draft also points to up to $750 billion of potential compute spending, though that figure includes deals still under negotiation. Anthropic's first-half 2026 revenue reached $16.3 billion, up from $1.1 billion a year earlier, while its $80.7 billion net loss includes about $72 billion of non-cash adjustments. Two customers accounted for about 20% of first-half revenue, and the draft says the IPO could value Anthropic at $2 trillion, a preliminary estimate.
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