Capital de TokensAkamai will spend billions before getting paid
Watch on YouTube Akamai has just committed to spending billions before receiving most of the revenue from its new client. That client is Anthropic, and the contract is worth $11.6 billion over seven years. It sounds like a win for Akamai. But if it has to pay for the infrastructure first, it also sounds...
Akamai has just committed to spending billions before receiving most of the revenue from its new client. That client is Anthropic, and the contract is worth $11.6 billion over seven years. It sounds like a win for Akamai. But if it has to pay for the infrastructure first, it also sounds like an enormous bet. Exactly. Reuters reported the deal this week, and Akamai’s filing with the U.S. regulator reveals more than the headline figure: what capacity Anthropic is buying, when it could start using it, and who bears the risk of building it.
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