Blackstone in Early Talks for Second Mega Debt Round to Fund Anthropic's Google AI Chip Purchases

Blackstone Inc. is holding preliminary discussions with investors about raising a second ultra-large debt financing for Anthropic, Bloomberg reported, citing people familiar with the matter. The funds are intended to support Anthropic's plan to purchase Google AI chips. Blackstone has floated an initial proposal of at least $36 billion. The final size, structure, and whether Blackstone will lead the transaction are still being reviewed, and details could change. The planned financing reflects a broader trend of AI companies using massive capital deployment to secure compute resources. With demand for large model training and inference rising, AI firms are exploring new financing routes to pay for expensive computing infrastructure. The talks are in their early stages, according to the report, and nothing has been finalized. If completed, this would be the second such mega debt round for Anthropic, highlighting the growing scale of capital behind AI compute acquisition.