The interesting part isn't the $26B. It's who is providing it. Google's $10B exercises an existing financing option. AMD's $2.5B is tied to its hardware relationship. These aren't just investors betting on AI. They're suppliers with a financial interest in keeping Anthropic's infrastructure spending alive.
Anthropic has roughly $900B in long-term compute commitments. So here's the question: when Anthropic spends the money, who captures the economics? Its future shareholders, or the companies selling it the infrastructure? AI demand can be very real while the equity returns end up somewhere else entirely.