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Anthropic expects its cloud spending to reach $80 billion through 2029, underscoring the escalating infrastructure demands behind generative AI. The startup\u00a0distributes workloads across Google Cloud, Microsoft Azure, and AWS, while also sharing revenue from AI sales on those platforms. 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