Dario Amodei, co-founder and CEO of Anthropic, attends the AI Impact Summit in New Delhi, India on Thursday, February 19, 2026.
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human very preliminary negotiations are underway to lease computing power from metaa person familiar with the matter told CNBC’s Kate Rooney.
The social media giant’s shares rose from the day’s lows on Friday after the New York Times reported that a deal worth about $10 billion was being considered.
The talks come weeks after Anthropic announced a similar deal with Elon Musk. space x Leverage the computing power of the Colossus 1 data center to increase the capabilities of your paying subscribers.
These are signs that Anthropic, one of the leading artificial intelligence labs, continues to make a big commitment to working with other AI labs to leverage access to its AI chips. Nvidia.
For companies like Anthropic, access to enough AI chips remains a challenge, and cutting-edge models like Fable have usage limits.
The talks also come after Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg said in May that the social media company was considering entering the cloud computing business in a bid to demonstrate to investors that the company could make money from AI investments beyond improving its current business. Dave Brown, a former senior executive at Amazon Web Services, is joining Meta, CNBC has confirmed.
Meta could spend up to $145 billion in capital investments in 2026, including AI infrastructure.
Last October, Mr. Zuckerberg said that companies routinely “ask us, is there any computing that we can buy at some premium over what we’re buying it for?”
Mehta declined to comment.
