Nscale in talks with Anthropic for $45 billion computing deal

AI cloud firm Nscale Ltd. is in talks to sell computing power to Anthropic in a deal that could be worth about $45 billion, according to people familiar with the negotiations. If completed, it would rank among the largest AI infrastructure deals.

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