Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of Meta Reuters/Mike Blake Meta is in negotiations to lease part of its computational processing capacity to Anthropic, owner of the Claude assistant, The New York Times reported this Friday (17). According to the report, which cited three people with knowledge of the discussions, the possible agreement could reach US$10 billion over two years. ?? Do you have any reporting suggestions? Send to g1 The agreement would help Meta diversify its revenues beyond advertising, generating revenue from its infrastructure and competing with companies such as CoreWeave and Nebius, which offer cloud services focused on artificial intelligence applications. Anthropic would pay Meta in monthly installments over the two years, although the terms could still be changed, according to the New York Times. The newspaper added that both companies could end the agreement early.
Meta and Anthropic negotiate US$10 billion agreement to rent data centers, says newspaper
Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of Meta Reuters/Mike Blake Meta is in negotiations to lease part of its computational processing capacity to Anthropic, owner of the Claude assistant, The New York Times reported this Friday (17)....
According to the report, Anthropic proposed the agreement in June, and Meta is evaluating the proposal. The negotiations, however, became more complex because Meta does not yet have a structured business to sell its computational processing capacity. According to the newspaper, talks are still at an early stage and may not result in an agreement. Meta did not immediately respond to a Reuters request for comment, while Anthropic declined to comment. Reuters was unable to independently verify the information. The potential agreement follows a strategy recently adopted in another agreement closed by Anthropic. The company, which is preparing to go public, started using the entire capacity of a SpaceX data center, owned by Elon Musk, in Memphis, in the United States. In a meeting with shareholders, Meta's CEO, Mark Zuckerberg, said that the company's entry into the cloud computing market was "definitely a possibility". According to him, companies look to Meta "almost every week" to buy access to their AI models or idle processing capacity. Earlier this month, Bloomberg News reported that Meta was developing a cloud computing business to market its excess processing capacity and host artificial intelligence models for developers.
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