The battle for AI computing power escalates

The battle for AI computing power escalates again! Anthropic signs a US$10 billion agreement with AI cloud startup Volta. The computing power arms race in the field of large AI models has once again ushered in heavy bets. It was recently revealed that the AI ​​star startup Anthropic has reached a huge cooperation agreement with the cloud computing startup Volta worth up to US$10 billion to ensure the computing power needs of its large model Claude in the next few years. According to information disclosed by people familiar with the matter, Norway-based Volta will provide continuous cloud computing power support for Anthropic in the next 6 years. As an important part of the cooperation, the encryption mining company Bitdeer will participate as a partner in building a computing power data center. The data center is located in Norway, has a planned computing capacity of 133 megawatts, and will be fully equipped with NVIDIA's latest Vera Rubin architecture chips. As a member of the NVIDIA Cloud Partner Program, Volta’s move marks the in-depth integration of top AI computing resources. Facing increasingly fierce competition in the industry, Anthropic has recently been rapidly expanding its computing power footprint around the world. Before reaching this tens of billions deal with Volta, Anthropic had signed multiple computing power cooperation agreements with technology giants such as SpaceX and Amazon. Industry analysts believe that this series of intensive actions highlights the eager desire and strong monopoly determination of the leading model players for the next generation of AI computing power infrastructure. via AI News (author: AI Base)