Anthropic just inked a massive AI infrastructure deal with Amazon

Big Tech is its own best customer, and the Claude creator's new contract is the latest proof of that.

Anthropic has struck a huge new deal with Amazon that'll give the AI startup more computing power and fresh investment.

What does this mean?

Anthropic is growing so quickly that its infrastructure is starting to creak. Annualized revenue has hit $30 billion, and demand for tools like Claude Code has surged so fast that the company has at times struggled to serve customers reliably.

▶ So Anthropic agreed on Monday to spend more than $100 billion over the next decade on Amazon's chips and cloud infrastructure. But Amazon is also (more or less) giving Anthropic the money to do it: it's writing a $5 billion check now - on top of the $8 billion it's alrea..