Anthropic and Meta have both entered into multi-year partnerships with cloud-computing provider CoreWeave, the company announced last week.
The exact details of its partnership with Anthropic are not publicly available, but CoreWeave said the AI developer would use its services to run workloads at production scale. The company added the agreement will bring compute online starting this year which will initially focus on a phased infrastructure rollout.
“AI is no longer just about infrastructure, it’s about the platforms that turn models into real-world impact,” said Michael Intrator, co-founder, chief executive and chairman of CoreWeave. “We’re excited to work with Anthropic at the centre of where models are put to work and performance in production shows up.
“It’s exactly the kind of real-world deployment of AI that CoreWeave was built for.”
On 9 April, CoreWeave announced a $21 billion agreement with Meta to provide AI cloud capacity until December 2032. The capacity will be deployed in multiple locations and include some of the initial deployments of Nvidia’s new Vera Rubin platform.
This deal builds on one signed last October in which CoreWeave would provide $14.2 billion of cloud computer infrastructure until 3031, bringing Meta’s total commitment to over $35 billion.
The company’s stock price has jumped by 25 percent in the last five days of trading in response to these announcements.
Established in 2017, CoreWeave, then Atlantic Crypto, initially focused on providing compute for cryptocurrency mining during its explosion in popularity. Following the 2018 crash, the company rebranded and began using its large number of GPUs to provide cloud computing infrastructure.
Since 2022, it has expanded rapidly, becoming one of the most important infrastructure providers for the AI boom.
