Apollo and Blackstone orchestrate a $36 billion debt deal to finance Anthropic’s chips

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Apollo and Blackstone are structuring a $36 billion debt deal to fund Anthropic’s AI infrastructure. The money will help pay for Google’s custom TPU chips, which Anthropic plans to lease through a special-purpose vehicle. Broadcom is backing the largest portions of the transaction with a residual value support arrangement. The structure could become one of the biggest private credit deals ever and the largest chip-financing transaction to date. The news also follows Anthropic’s recent $65 billion funding round that pushed its valuation above OpenAI’s.

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Amount $36.0B Total raised
Date May 29, 2026 Announcement date
Investors Microsoft, Apollo Global Management Lead investors
Company anthropic.com Funded company

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$10M to $25M