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Broadcom, Apollo, and Blackstone Support Anthropic Computing Project
Broadcom has announced supporting Anthropic's computing project alongside Apollo and Blackstone. The move is seen as an indirect strategy to stimulate demand for chips. While the transaction is ostensibly an AI computing infrastructure financing arrangement, industry insiders believe the deeper goal is to boost long-term demand for Broadcom's custom AI chips by promoting large-scale AI computing deployments. Such AI computing projects involving private equity capital are emerging as a new financing model connecting chip designers, AI model companies, and data center capital. However, they also carry uncertainties regarding demand forecasts and capital returns. (The Information)
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OKX to List TWLO, BX, ROK, and CGNX Stock Perpetual Contracts
According to an official announcement, OKX will list stock perpetual contracts for Twilio (TWLO), Blackstone (BX), Rockwell Automation (ROK), and Cognex Corporation (CGNX) between 17:00 and 17:45 today.
Bitget Adds 15 New Stock Contracts, Including Adobe, BlackRock, and Hewlett Packard Enterprise
According to the official announcement, Bitget stock contracts are now live for 15 underlying assets, including ADBE (Adobe), CRWD (CrowdStrike), HPE (Hewlett Packard Enterprise), BX (The Blackstone Group), and TWLO (Twilio), spanning popular sectors such as cybersecurity, AI data centers, satellite communications, and small-cap ETFs.
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Apollo and Blackstone Complete $35 Billion Financing for Anthropic to Expand AI Infrastructure
According to Bloomberg, Apollo Global Management and Blackstone Group have finalized a total $35 billion financing arrangement for Anthropic to support its expansion of AI infrastructure.
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Apollo and Blackstone raised $35 billion in financing for the Anthropic chip project
Apollo and Blackstone have raised $35 billion in financing for the Anthropic chip project. (FT)
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Private equity giants Blackstone and Apollo are planning a massive chip financing deal for Anthropic
private equity giants Apollo Global Management and Blackstone Group are bringing in more investors for a debt financing deal worth approximately $36 billion to help Anthropic build its artificial intelligence infrastructure.According to insiders, this debt financing will be used to purchase Google's custom TPU (Tensor Processing Unit) chips, which will then be leased by Anthropic. Broadcom, which assisted Google in developing the chip, will provide guarantees for the majority of this deal. This move is expected to become one of the largest private credit transactions in history and potentially the biggest debt financing deal for chips to date. The plan aims to leverage Broadcom's credit standing to provide computing power support for Anthropic.
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Google and Blackstone Join Forces to Launch AI Cloud Company, Rivaling CoreWeave
According to The Wall Street Journal, Google, a subsidiary of Alphabet, and Blackstone Group plan to jointly establish an AI cloud company centered on Google’s proprietary chips, directly competing with rivals such as CoreWeave. Blackstone will contribute $5 billion in equity capital and hold a majority stake in the new company. The deal was officially announced on Monday local time, and the new company’s name has not yet been disclosed.
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Coincheck receives $65M strategic investment from Japanese telecom giant KDDI
Coincheck Group, a Nasdaq-listed company, announced a strategic investment and business cooperation agreement with Japanese telecom giant KDDI Corporation. KDDI will subscribe to 28,536,516 newly issued common shares of Coincheck Group at a price of $2.28 per share, with a total transaction value of approximately $65 million. JPMorgan served as financial advisor, and De Brauw Blackstone Westbroek and Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP served as legal advisors. It is reported that the two parties will collaborate on expanding the digital asset market, including revenue sharing and referral incentive mechanisms. (Businesswire)
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Anthropic Plans Joint Venture with Blackstone and Goldman Sachs
informed sources have revealed Anthropic is finalizing an agreement to establish a new joint venture with Blackstone Group, Goldman Sachs, and several other Wall Street firms. The venture aims to sell artificial intelligence tools to companies backed by private equity. (Jinshi)
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Securitize Appoints Former IMF Representative to Its Board
Odaily News Securitize announced the appointment of investor, Blackstone advisor, and former International Monetary Fund (IMF) board member Sunil Sabharwal to its board. Sunil Sabharwal served as the U.S. representative to the IMF, confirmed by the U.S. Senate, from 2016 to 2018, for which he received the U.S. Department of the Treasury's Distinguished Service Award. He currently serves on the boards of Thunes and TookiTaki, and previously served as Chairman of payment companies Earthport and Ogone, which were acquired by Visa and Ingenico, respectively. Since 2021, he has served as an advisor and operating partner for the Blackstone Growth Equity Fund.Securitize currently manages over $4 billion in on-chain assets, including the BlackRock BUIDL Fund and tokenized products from institutions such as Apollo, BNY, Hamilton Lane, KKR, and VanEck. The company reached an acquisition agreement with a Cantor Fitzgerald affiliate last October, valuing Securitize at $1 billion. The merged company is set to list on Nasdaq under the ticker symbol CEPT.
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