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September 08, 2026
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We reported on Anthropic’s push to build more of its payments infrastructure in-house, a new multibillion-dollar effort to finance AI chip production and the massive compute commitments reshaping the AI race.
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Key highlights:
- Anthropic is exploring bringing more payments and billing infrastructure in-house.
- Coatue and MatX are in talks on a multibillion-dollar venture to finance AI chip production.
- Anthropic has agreed to as much as $517 billion in compute deals over the past 11 months.
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