Anthropic is negotiating to rent servers with Microsoft's custom 'Athena' AI chips, diversifying beyond Nvidia and reshaping the AI infrastructure landscape.

Amazon’s yearslong effort to build a serious alternative to Nvidia’s dominant AI chips is starting to gain traction. Anthropic and OpenAI, which have struck multibillion-dollar…

Anthropic is paying xAI $1.2 billion per month for compute at the Colossus 1 data center through May 2029, accessing over 220,000 Nvidia GPUs.