Apollo and Blackstone are arranging a $36bn financing to buy Google TPUs and lease them to Anthropic, with Broadcom backstopping the senior debt.

May 28 : Apollo Global Management and Blackstone are working to bring in additional investors for about $36 billion debt financing tied to AI startup Anthropic PBC's efforts to…

The debt would be used to buy custom chips from Google. Anthropic would then lease these chips, known as tensor processing units, or TPUs, the report said, citing people…