CoreWeave Strikes Deal With Anthropic

Cloud infrastructure company CoreWeave announced on April 10 a multiyear deal with Anthropic to support its Claude artificial intelligence (AI) models through its cloud platform. Financial terms of the agreement were not disclosed.

Founded in 2017, CoreWeave provides GPU compute, access to data centers, and high-powered chips for AI workloads, mainly supplied by Nvidia.

The agreement will bring computing capacity for Anthropic online later this year and help ​it run workloads for its Claude family of AI ​models.

The companies said the infrastructure collaboration will be rolled out in phases and could expand over time.

“AI is no longer just about infrastructure, it’s about the platforms that turn models into real-world impact,” CoreWeave CEO Michael Intrator said. “We’re excited to work with Anthropic at the center 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 April 9, CoreWeave also announced a $21 billion deal with Meta to expand the AI cloud capacity Meta was using.

Coreweave said the increased capacity for Meta will include some initial deployments of the NVIDIA Vera Rubin platform and will be used to increase Meta’s development and deployment of AI.

The company said the deal is a clear signal of the industry’s accelerating demand for infrastructure capable of supporting large-scale AI workloads.

“This is another example that leading companies are choosing CoreWeave’s AI cloud to run their most demanding workloads,” Intrator said.

Anthropic also struck a deal with Google and Broadcom last week to expand TPU capacity.

“We are making our most significant compute commitment to date to keep pace with our unprecedented growth,” Anthropic Chief Financial Officer Krishna Rao said.

Supply-Chain Risk

A federal appeals court in Washington on April 8 ruled that, pending a full judicial review, the Department of War may designate Anthropic as a supply-chain risk after the AI company asked the court to block the designation.

The ruling appears to conflict with an order issued last month by a federal district court in California that temporarily halted the designation while litigation plays out.

Anthropic alleges that Secretary of War Pete Hegseth overstepped his authority when he designated the company a national security ​supply-chain risk.

The federal boycott of Anthropic directed federal agencies, contractors, and suppliers to end ties with the company. It was initiated after the company declined to change the user policy for its AI product, Claude, to remove what the company described as safety guardrails preventing its use for mass surveillance and fully autonomous weapons.

The Pentagon has said it does not intend to use Claude for those purposes.

Matthew Vadum and Reuters contributed to this report.