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Blackstone, banks fund Anthropic’s $63B AI compute deal

By Drooid · Oct 27, 2026, 2:17 AM UTC · How we work

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Banks and Blackstone arranged $63 billion financing for Anthropic’s AI compute with Broadcom chips.
A special purpose vehicle will lease Broadcom XPU accelerators and networking gear to Anthropic.
Bank of America, Citi and Morgan Stanley provided first-lien loans of about $43.5 billion.
Blackstone supplied second-lien financing while Broadcom pledged residual-value support equal to the first-lien amount.
Deliveries start in 2027 and Anthropic filed for a Nasdaq IPO under ticker “ANT” that day.

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Story summary

Banks and Blackstone arranged $63 billion financing for Anthropic’s AI compute with Broadcom chips.
A special purpose vehicle will lease Broadcom XPU accelerators and networking gear to Anthropic.
Bank of America, Citi and Morgan Stanley provided first-lien loans of about $43.5 billion.
Blackstone supplied second-lien financing while Broadcom pledged residual-value support equal to the first-lien amount.
Deliveries start in 2027 and Anthropic filed for a Nasdaq IPO under ticker “ANT” that day.